Selecting music for slideshows on Apple TV

When I want to show my photos on Apple TV as a slideshow, the program randomly picks music from my i-Tunes library to accompany the slides. Sometimes the music "works", sometimes it is inappropriate and distracting. Can I control which music accompanies my slideshows without going to the work of formally creating the show in i-Movie?

If you have the latest update for Apple TV and if you have an iPod Touch or iPhone then you can use the Remote Application to change the song while viewing a Photo slide show.

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I am having trouble playing music with slideshows since updating to iphoto 6. I can see all my playlists and I am able to select the playlist I want and this will play in the 'play music during slideshow' window. However, when I play the slideshow I receive an error message telling me that 'the music you have selected can't be found or can't be opened'.
This has only been a problem since updating and it doesn't matter what playlist I choose - they will all play in both iTunes and the selection screen for the slideshpw but not actually with the slideshow (the play music with slideshow box is ticked).
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earnie82:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. What version of Quicktime are you running? You should be at 7.1.5. If not update to it and give it another try.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Where do I get samples of music for a slideshow . I just want a melow song/beat as the slideshow shows pictures?

If you go to the music browser in iMovie, and navigate to the iLife/Jingles section, you will find a lot of music tracks you can use in your iMovie. These are royalty free and can be used in places like YouTube.
For more places to get music, see my tip here.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3921
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Hi, I am having trouble in selecting music to play with a slide show in iPhoto. I can see all my iTunes library but when i select a track it simply won't play in the slide show. Can anyone help?

Your idea of starting the music and then starting a slideshow is a possible work-around, but still it seems like one should be able to have programmed music for a slideshow just like in iPhoto, or the video iPods.

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In the Photos app no - a work-around is to start the music playing in the iPod app and then switch into the Photos app and start the slideshow (with no music selected in the slideshow settings).

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So for example I may have a few favourite albums I like to listen to when I go to sleep, they may have different tags like folk, electronica. If I tagged them something like Folk sleep, electronica sleep, could I then find all albums with Sleep somewhere in the tag using Genius. I want to do the same for albums I like to listen to when I run or when going out or when sad etc....
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Charlie.

What you need is to learn how to use Smart Playlists.
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I have created a slideshow and want to add music in iphoto 6. I know I was able to select a specific song from itunes before but for some reason I can't now. It only gives me the titles like recently played, etc.
I have closed the programs and reopened itunes first as the help section suggested. I dragged some itunes .xml file to my desktop that didn't help. Any thoughts on how to fix this.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Check out the screen shots that are linked to in Lori's posts in this thread to see if any of them will help you with your problem.
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No longer able to program music for slideshow?

For some reason when I try to play any slideshow on my tv and choose setting, when it comes to music it is stuck on "DEFAULT MUSIC NONE". I can't bring up any of my iTunes library playlists or the Themes provided by Apple TV. I can only turn shuffle songs off and on and that I think brings up the entire library (including Spanish lessons LOL). I have upgraded the Apple TV software to the latest and also iTunes to latest version. No matter what button I push on the Apple TV remote nothing changes. I disconnected the Apple TV and reconnected it. Only thing I haven't done yet is turn off and on the router. Apple TV other programs all work alright as far as I know. Any suggestions?

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I almost pulled my hair trying to figure this out. If you want to just stream and watch slideshows but hear no music do this:
Make sure that you are streaming (settings>Add shared library)
Go back to the top menu, select photos>shared photos and go to the settings inside this menu. NOT the settings for the main section of photos. It is above the albums in your shared photos.
Or you could sync everything but that is just not for me.

You could also set up a syncing library and choose to sync nothing but photos. This allows you many of the benefits of the primary library that you don't get by setting up a secondary library.

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Hi again,
My slideshows are quite lengthy and run for longer than a standard song. If I fit to the music, the slides change too quickly. Is it possible to somehow have multiple songs that run back to back ?? It would be great if more than one song could be fitted to the duration of the slideshow. I like to have a decent time length before each slide changes. is that possible ????
And many thanks Hal for your previous answer, works a treat !!!
Dave.

According to Martin Evening's Lr4 book, only single tracks can be selected. He goes on to suggest the use of third party software to convert a playlist of songs into a single audio file. I haven't built any slideshows long enough to need more than a single audio track, so I haven't tried to murge audio files. Perhaps another forum member has experience stringing tunes together.
Bill

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If you plan on using iDVD to burn the iPhoto slideshow to disk the only factor to consider is the playing time of it . iDVD can burn a 120 minute QT movie file. If you're going to use the finder and burn the resulting QT movie file export the file and check the size.
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