newbie needs "sound" help

[julia russo]

Having created a slide show, I am wondering how to add music. I have music "loops" but they do not blend together well. Any suggestions or directions I could access?

Thanks, Julia

[dagrace]

First off, welcome to the forum, Julia!

You can use the Search function in this forum or read all the posts in this forum. I did that when I first joined and there is a welath of information here just from reading other folks' questions and the replies.

If you have some music in mind, and you have it on CD, there are free programs out there that convert CD files to mp3 files. If you already have them on the computer, in nearly any form, then there are free programs (Audacity being one mentioned a lot in this forum) that will let you edit them for time, fade in and out, put several pieces of music together, etc. and then save the result as an mp3.

PTE will accept several different formats of sound, but from reading this forum, it seems that mp3 is a common format for slide shows.

After you have the music in some form you want to use, there is a Music tab in the Project Options where you can include one or more files to play. Again, the wisdom from this forum seems to be to have one file that plays, rather than let PTE piece it together.

Give this a try post back if you have more questions.