Should I compress a song file before putting it into Keynote?

I want to add “America the Beautiful” to a presentation that I am making. I have read that it isn't possible to have a song playing throughout the whole presentation of slides, so I decided to put different versions of the song, sung by different artists, on each separate page/slide.
I notice that in a Keynote tutorial using a song from Garageband, they said to compress the song (in Garage Band). My question is, if I have the song clips already, should I run them through something (like QuickTime ) to compress them and lighten the file? Or does that compression have only to do with lightening the file for emailing? What should I do?
~Lorna in SoCal
http://web.mac.com/lorna6

First, I don't recommend compressing audio unless you have to do so for reasons other than file size. That said, bringing audio into Keynote via Garage Band usually works fairly well.
You can have an audio file run throughout your presentation. Go to the Inspector / Document / Audio menu and Record the audio file as a Soundtrack. Any editing or other changes to the audio track will need to be done off-line, however, before you import (or Record) the track into Keynote. Also be aware that if your slides run-out before the audio track does, the audio will be cut-off. So be sure that you have sufficient material (or have timed your slides properly) to last the duration of the song. And vice-versa!
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