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Adding music and previewing your story

You can add background music that plays during your story. If you included pictures with no specified duration, you can decide how long these pictures should appear when your story is played. After you set these options, you can preview your final story.

To add music and preview your story

  1. On the Add music and preview your story page, select the Add background music to your story check box.
  2. In the Music file box, type the path to the music file that you want to play during your story, or click Browse to locate the music file on your computer.

    The music file can be in Windows Media Audio (WMA), MP3, or WAV format.

  3. In the Number of seconds to display a picture with no specified duration box, type or click the number of seconds that you want a picture containing no narration or advanced options to appear when someone plays your story.

    This option is only available if your story includes pictures without narration and you have not already specified the number of seconds to display each picture without narration by using the Advanced Options dialog box.

  4. Click Preview Final Story.

    Your entire story plays, complete with the narration, title page, and background music you added.

  5. If you need to adjust the volume of the background music in your story, move the Volume slider on the Add music and preview your story page.

    For example, if you narrated your pictures, you may want to move the slider toward Low to decrease the music volume so your voice can be heard clearly over the background music.

  6. Click Next.

    If you want to return to the previous page, click Back.

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