Slideshow "Fit to Music" in Lightroom 5

Hi, I was working on the slideshow module of Lightroom 5, added music and applied "fit to music". It worked fine during the preview. I then added more photos and changed the music, but when I applied "fit to music" after making all these changes, there was no adjustment with the timing of the new set of photos. On playback, the length of the slideshow is now longer than the (new) music I selected, making the music loop. Is there a step that I may have missed? I figured choosing a different music file and then clicking on "fit to music" would automatically change the timing (which in my case is not working). Thanks, hope to get some help on this soon. =) -ian umali

I'm not aware of a minimum amount of photos to play with music, I've tried it with 2. But I suspect something is wrong with the music you have selected, the "!" is shown if LR cannot read the mp3 file and cannot determine its length. I've seen this with some mp3's, but I cannot determine why. Have you tried a different mp3?
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