As of Public Beta 2, you can add music to your Lightroom slideshows. It's not the most intuitive process ever designed, so I'll whisk you through it right now.
Once you set up the images for your slideshow, go to Playback Settings and check the Play Music box. Then click on the somewhat obscure "downward pointing triangle" to the right of the Play Music box to reveal a popup menu with all of your iTunes music playlists. This is the interesting part. The popup menu shows Library and playlists only, not individual songs. If you choose a particular playlist, Lightroom will add the first song in that playlist to your slideshow.
But what if you want to play the fifth song in the playlist? Here's the workaround. Go back to iTunes and create a new playlist. Call it "Lightroom Music" for example. Then put just one song in it. Now, go back to Lightroom, and choose "Refresh playlist from iTunes" at the top of the popup menu. The new playlist you created should appear. Choose it to accompany your slideshow. Your preferred song will now play as the pictures roll by...
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Zeke, you have some good ideas here for the Lightroom engineers. I would add some of them to the Adobe Labs Forum so they can be considered for the next version. Thanks for your comments (and for listening too!).
Yeah. I thought it was strange that you can only pick from playlists. Thanks for the work around.
What would be cool is if they setup a sort of "filmloopy-type-thing" setup. Where you have a strip of the photos that are in your working directory at the bottom, and an empty strip atop where you can drag the photos from the bottom to the top. On the bottom of the top strip you can drag music from your library there. It would also be nice you could layer song upon song. I.e. You doing a slideshow with 5 different style of photograpy. Each style with 10 images. For each style of photograpy you like a different genre to invoke the style of photograpy. So you can place a different song "over" the top of the each group of images and the program will auto crossfade for you. That would be cool, maybe this is to much to ask, since this isn't the full purpose of the program, but it still be nice. I could go on and on, I truly love interface design.
Love your Podcast.