Everythime I open a certain project in GarageBand, my MacBook freezes. Help?

Question

For instance I open up My Song 119 and it loads fine but then I press something in the GarageBand window and it gives me the spinning ball which causes my Mac to be unresponsive. But if I open another song from the finder folder, it works perfectly fine. Why is this happening?

Answer 1

One of your recordings may be corrupted, or one track may be using too many complicated automation setting. Does your project have many software instruments that require a lot of processing?
And are you maybe runnimg out of disk space?
To try to find a possible bad track silence all tracks but one and play each track on its own. This way you should be able to find out if one of your tracks has a corrupted audio file or uses too many effects.
Then remove the bad recording or simplify your software instrument track (or turn it into a real instrument track).