Garage Band song import

I am trying to import a song from my ipad mini. I got the garage band song onto my desktop. When I try to open it, the computer is making me save it as... whether I do that or not, I keep getting an error message that the garageband needs to be updated to open that file. But whenever I check, there are no updates that need to be downloaded. I moved them over though itunes. All my other song files are fine, it is just one that is doing that.

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    Is your GarageBand version up to date? If not, upgrade to the latest version. also, you coud try to reset GarageBand to the factory settings. That brought my iCloud projects back.
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    I just transferred my garage band songs from my iphone to my mac. Why won't garage band open them? I just upgraded to ilife '11. Still won't work. Garage Band cannot open files in the "data" format.. Any Ideas?

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    You posted in a Windows forum, so its probably why you had your question overlooked. I found this article for you that seems to answer that question. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93585
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  • How to I access a garage band song

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    I assume your student shared his song from GarageBand to iTunes and then put it into a playlist and enabled the sharing of this playlist in the iTunes Preferences -> Sharing Tab?
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