SlideShowPro for Flash

Loading album background audio

This walkthrough will show how to load an MP3 file to use as the background audio for any album in your slide show. For more information on acceptable audio formats, see Slideshow content. For information on how audio is presented, see Media player.

Step One: Create an audio directory

Navigate to the folder where your slideshow files are contained. Create a new folder named "mp3" inside the album you want the audio played with. Place your MP3 file in this directory.

Step Two: Add audio link to XML document

The next step is to open your XML document and add an audio attribute to the album element you want audio with. For example:

<album title="Nature" description="Images of trees, lakes and flowers"
 lgPath="gallery/album1/lg/" audio="gallery/album1/mp3/audio.mp3">

Step Three (optional): Add an audio caption

By default, SlideShowPro for Flash will read the ID3 metadata in your MP3 file and display the song title and artist in the media player. If you'd like to override this, simply add an audioCaption attribute to the same album edited earlier, and fill it with your text. Your revised XML document would then look like this:

<album title="Nature" description="Images of trees, lakes and flowers"
 lgPath="gallery/album1/lg/" audio="gallery/album1/mp3/audio.mp3"
 audioCaption="Talking Heads - Nothing but Flowers">

Step Four: Publish

You're done! Now whenever a user loads the "Nature" album the audio player will appear, it will automatically stream the Talking Heads song.