adding more than one music track for slideshow

dseps · Post by **dseps** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:28 am

I have a slideshow of 100 photos or so, and am displaying them for 3 seconds each. I would like to loop on more than one song, and to have a few audio tracks play sequentially during the 5 minute slide show.

I can't figure out how to do this and it is really frustrating! I'm only able to select one song. If I choose a second song, it merely replaces the first.

If I can't do this, which seems like a ridiculous limitation, I would like to concatenate 2 or more .cda files or .m4a files into one so that I can set the single (concatenatation of songs) song to background music for my slide shows. If anyone knows how to do this, I would MUCH appreciate it.

I got this to work for mp3s using the copy /b msdos command (copy /b song1.mp3+song2.mp3 songs.mp3) but can't figure it out for itunes m4a or .cda songs. Very frustrating.

Thanks,

Dan

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:27 am

You could use an audio editor like Audacity, which is free, and can be obtained here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. You can put all your music together, then export it as one music file. Then bring that back into DMF.

maddrummer3301 · Post by **maddrummer3301** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:21 am

snoops · Post by **snoops** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 10:51 pm

Dan,

You should not physically just concatenate audio files like you did with the "copy" command. If it works with a certain type of file then you're lucky.

The reason is because the files have information in the header (at the beginning of the file) that describes the contents. By just concatenating you have non-audio data in the middle of a file where it is not expected.

An audio editor will be able to merge the audio content into 1 file and create a proper header describing the new complete contents.