I am making up CD's with the past years reunion pictures/images of my HS class...
Is there a software program that I can use to add music to them ?

You could try Ulead Video Studio 8.

As the name suggests, it also edits video, but you can easily create slide shows with it using titles transitions/special effects and set to music of your choice. I use it and can highly recommend it for it's features and ease of use. The 9th version is out, but it's much more expensive and in my opinion, 8 has everything the home movie maker needs to edit footage and create spectacular slide shows. Hope this helps.

If you are using Windows XP, there is Windows Movie Maker located in "Start/Accessories/Windows Movie Maker".... if not, I have used Adobe Premier. I also have Ulead's Video Studio 7 that came with my ADS capture system for analog video capture.... All 3 will work. It all depends on what you have available and/or can download. There are 'trial' versions on the various websites for you to try out.

You can use the free IrfanView graphics program and download and install the plugins. Then in the Irfanview Options menu, select the type of audio file you're going to use. In the example I made for you to see, I used a mp3 file type, so I checked the mp3 MPEG audio format.

Then I opened IrfanView and clicked on "File" / Slideshow. I first put in the audio file that I named "111.mp3". That filename so the audio file would be listed first. Then I added the images to be used and clicked the "play" button.

I set the "Advanced" options as I wanted and when I was satisfied that it worked correctly, I clicked the "Save As EXE/SCR file". I choose the ".exe" option. That file when burned to a CD will be the slide show. To see an example of this, Click Here.

Click the "Open" command and when the download is complete, the slide show with audio will begin to play. Be sure your speakers are on and if you're running Windows XP SP2, you will need to click the "Download File" option just under the address bar.

NOTE: To stop the playback, hit the "Escape" key on your keyboard.

This is a fairly big file due to the audio, so I only put in 5 small pictures, chosen at random. For your audio/slide CD you can put in many more images of any size you like. If you wish, you could also edit your audio so that it is one big long song...kind of like a medley of tunes popular during your school years.

And you can add an "Auto Run" file to make the CD begin play automatically when the CD is inserted into the CD-ROM drive. Let me know if you want that file.

I hope this helps!

Dwight

WOW! I'm glad that I ran into this thread! Super information here! Thanks to you all!

Mucho Gracias all.....
Now, all I have to do is take enough "smart" pills to figure it all out... I've got a year, so maybe that will be enough time....
Don

While researching an answer to another question, I ran across this software which may be of interest to you: CDs that play in TV DVD players

Dwight

I wrote a webpage about adding music to a IrfanView slide show...Click Here

If anyone is interested, here are some other IrfanView tutorials...Click Here