How to I access a garage band song

My student has created a song in garage band that we would like to use in our iMovie. I had the student share his song with iTunes, but now can't find the song in my iTunes?

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?
Then - in your iTunes - you need to enable the display of "Shared Libraries" in the "Show" part of the "general" iTunes preferences. You should see your studen's iTunes Library in the "Shared" section of your Library inspector.
RegardsLéonie

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How do I export my garage band song onto my iTunes?

So I created a remix on garage band on my ipad and would like to have it in my music on my ipad. How do I do that? I can use my laptop if need be and it's on my iPad mini. Please help quickly.

Share the finished GarageBand song to iTunes and sync the iPad with your mac. Then you can sync the song from iTunes on your Mac to the Music.app on the iPad. See this help page: http://help.apple.com/garageband/ipad/2.0/index.html#chs39284d66
Send a GarageBand song to iTunes
Tap My Songs, then tap Select.
Tap the song you want to send, then tap the Action button .
Tap Share Song via iTunes.
Do one of the following:
To send the song as a GarageBand song, tap GarageBand.
To send the song as an audio file, tap iTunes, then tap Share.
After you tap the iTunes icon, you can choose the quality of the file GarageBand sends to iTunes. You can also add artist, composer, and title information that appears in iTunes.
Sync your iPad with your computer.In iTunes, the exported song appears in the Documents list in the File Sharing area when GarageBand is selected.
Do one of the following:
Drag the song from the GarageBand Documents list to the Finder.
Click Save As, navigate to the location where you want to save the song, then click Save.
You can open the GarageBand song in GarageBand on your Mac, or play the audio file in iTunes (or any compatible audio application) on your computer. GarageBand songs cannot be opened on a Windows computer.
You could also mail the song to your mac,
Send a GarageBand song via email
Tap My Songs, then tap the Action button .
Tap Share Song via Mail.
Enter the artist, composer, and album name if you wish, then tap Email.An email message appears, with the song as an attachment in AAC format.
Tap the To, Cc/Bcc, and Subject fields to edit the recipients and the subject of the email. To choose recipients from your Address Book, tap the Add Recipient button.
Tap the body of the email to edit the message text.
When the email is ready, tap Send in the upper-right corner to send it.You can’t send the email until you add at least one recipient.

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?

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?

Are you trying to transfer the GarageBand projects or the rendered audio files? What version of GarageBand do you have on your iPhone?
I do not think you can share your GarageBand projects from your iPhone to GarageBand on your Mac, unless you have iCloud, afaik, only the audio files.
How did you transfer the song?
To share from an IOS device the Projects or audio files, see: Share GarageBand songs
Regards
Léonie

How do you add non-Garage band instruments into a Logic project so that you can hear them on playback?

How do you add non-Garage band instruments (orchestral instruments) into a Logic Pro (8) project so that you can hear those insrtruments' sounds on playback? I've tried to understand and follow the Logic Pro 8 User Manual, but the process comes off as so complex and the writing so technical that it does not help but only confuses.
To be precise - I want to add instruments (orchestral) that are not offered in the current Garage band menu which is offered in the Mixer's channel strip menus for Logic Pro 8. To be clear, the instruments that are offered are Bass / Drum Kits / Guitars / Mallets / Organs / Pianos and Keyboards / Synth Basics / Synth Leads / Synth Pads. Most of these that I've tried seem to work and give their characteristic sound when placed in a particular channel and playback is clicked.
However - there is one orchestra instrument offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Mixer channel menu and it's the item labelled "Performance - 000 flute 1 or 001 flute 1." And it is this instrument that presents a problem. When I click on it and choose it from the menu and enter it as the instrument of choice for a specfic channel / track in my Logic Pro project arrangement, when playing back the music for the overall piece this particular track, the flute, does not playback and produce the notes (Midi events) in the track in the sound of the flute. Instead, nothing comes out at all. I can't imagine why this does not work. Any ideas, anyone? Again, when choosing this instrument for a track and clicking the playback no flute sound is forthcoming. Why not? I have not tried them all, but when most of the other various types of keyboards, such as an electric piano or an organ, are chosen for a track the playback successfully renders the sound of these instruments. Why then does playback not produce the sound of the flute when it has clearly been chosen to play and sound the Midi events given it?
Anyway, the overall, larger issue for me is the inability I have to choose and get non-Garageband instruments (largely orchestral) to play the Midi events given on various tracks. If my guess is correct then technically, orchestral instruments not offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Garageband Mixer channel menu are referred to as external Midi sampled instruments - still, IMHO the process is not clearly spelled out in the User Manual. The simple step by step process whereby a non-Garage band instrument, say an orchestral instrument, is placed in a channel replete with Midi event (notes) waiting to be played should be easy, logical and given in a simple to follow format, but is not.
What with all the talk of routes, busses, auxillary channels, GM devices, GM mixers, audio bins, libraries and audio files this Logic Pro User is confused to the max. Can someone please help me and, in simple English, describe the step by step process whereby presumably external sampled orchestral instruments can be successfully employed, in any given Logic Pro arrangement project, to render their characteristic sounds upon playback?
On my two Macs, one a laptop and one a much larger Mac, I have any number of the GSO (Garritan Symphony Orceshtra) and Vienna Symphony Orchestra instrument library samples - and yet - I've yet to figure out how to actually get them INTO a Logic Pro project of any kind! To put this as a question, even as a humble request, how can I make good use of these orchestral sample libraries in a Logic Pro project? Can someone steer my to a clear resolution of this issue. I'd sincerely appreciate it! Thanks all!
DavidBacon

DavidBacon wrote:
Anyway, the overall, larger issue for me is the inability I have to choose and get non-Garageband instruments (largely orchestral) to play the Midi events given on various tracks. If my guess is correct then technically, orchestral instruments not offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Garageband Mixer channel menu are referred to as external Midi sampled instruments - still, IMHO the process is not clearly spelled out in the User Manual. The simple step by step process whereby a non-Garage band instrument, say an orchestral instrument, is placed in a channel replete with Midi event (notes) waiting to be played should be easy, logical and given in a simple to follow format, but is not.
What with all the talk of routes, busses, auxillary channels, GM devices, GM mixers, audio bins, libraries and audio files this Logic Pro User is confused to the max.
David, you understand that this is professional software and is not necessarily meant to be easy but is in fact designed to give the professional user as many choices as possible, that's why it's in the Pro Apps section. You WILL need to learn about buses, GM Devices, Audio Bins, Libraries...etc..etc if you intend to use Logic.
That said, you are looking in the wrong place in the channel strip.
May I offer you advice?
Go here:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/
Open "Exploring Logic Pro" (a short PDF Document). Pay special attention to chapter 3. Also pay special attention to the included graphics of the channel strips.
I encourage you to read the whole document as it will clear up many things... even though it's a Logic 9 document.
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All my Garage Band songs are gone in the app after I uploaded to iCloud.

All my Garage Band songs are gone in the app after I uploaded to iCloud. Where can I retrieve the songs? iCloud doesn't show any Garage Band folder backup. Help please!!!

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.
Open the "Settings" app on your iPad and scroll down to the applications. Open the GarageBand settings and set "Reset GarageBand" to on.
BTW: If there are network problems it sometimes may take a very long time, before the song is downloaded from the cloud again. That is why I never upload the original to iCloud - I duplicate the song and share only a copy to iCloud. Once I am sure the upload has been successful and the cloud version is working I delete the original.
Regards
Léonie

How can I cancel "The Garage Band content is now downloading" once it starts? I thought it would show the size of the download, but it just assumes I have unlimited bandwidth, instead of mobile data rates which are super expensive.

How can I cancel "The Garage Band content is now downloading" once it starts? I thought it would show the size of the download, but it just assumes I have unlimited bandwidth, instead of mobile data rates which are super expensive.
Once it started, it just shows it's progress and there's no option I can find to stop the download.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Kye.

Hi,
I am not sure whether it works, Try "Restore Sound Library" in Menu.

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.

Try posting on the Garage Band forum.

HOW DO I FORMAT GARAGE BAND SONGS TO MP3 THROUGH ITUNES?

I am having the same problem and I did the same steps as Vasso. But my songs are from Garage Band... How do you format the songs from Garage band so that they can be burned as MP3 CD's from ITunes? I went to preference in Itunes then to advance then to burning and I set it for MP3 Cd and when I tried to burn the selected songs on my playlist I was prompted that ONLY FILES THAT ARE ALREADY MP3 FORMAT MAY BE BURNED TO AN MP3 CD.

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
Good Luck, and try the Mac iTunes forum next time for a faster answer.
Rachyl

After changing Itunes account information, how do I get Garage Band songs back from Apple TV 1st Gen to my MacBook?

I made a few songs on Garage Band and shared them with my Apple TV, 1st generation. Then, my Itunes account got hacked and I had to change my Itunes ID and password. Now, those songs are only on the Apple TV drive, but do not show up on my Itunes music list. (I deleted them from the Garage Band application, apparently.) Is there some way to get them back onto my MacBook. I want to use them in an Imovie. Thanks.

Welcome to the Apple community.
Unfortunately, you would need to remove the hard drive from the Apple TV and connect it to your Mac using an appropriate cradle in order to remove those files.

I created garage band songs and they syched gray instead of black and won't play on touch

I write songs and made a garage band version via audacity. When I synched the songs to my touch from iTunes, they were 'gray' in color, not black, as normal and will not play on the touch. The only difference between these and previous songs is the use of garage band for the music. Help!!!

Do they play in iTunes? If so:
Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Unsync all music and resync
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.

Help! Size of garage band song too big when exported

I'm trying to share songs I've created with Garage band. For some reason they are way too large (40 - 60MB) to attach to an email and send. They shouldn't be that big, they are just average sized songs. Thats the size that they each came out when I exported it from garage band to itunes. A friend recomended a program Audacity to reduce their size (or bitrate?) but I haven't a clue as to how to use it to make my songs normal size. Is there some simple way to reduce their size so that I can send them to people?
Also, the second part of my question is I would like the songs to be in a format readable not only by Mac users but by PC users as well.
As you can see I know very little about this stuff but I really need to send these songs out, any bit of help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou, Marc.

We get posts like this one here fairly often, and I can't understand it.
Go look at your CD collection. Every 3-minute song on any CD takes up 30 MB of file space. Every 5-minute song takes up 50MB of file space.
It's the same with GarageBand, because GarageBand records and mixes music to 16-bit, 44.1KHz two-channel stereo, just like on a CD. One minute of stereo music takes up approximately 10 MB.
Complaining that a five minute song in GarageBand takes up 50 MB is like complaining that a foot has twelve inches in it, or that a kilogram contains 1000 grams.
Use iTunes to burn your GarageBand songs to a CD in the regular audio CD format. Then mail the CD to your friends. They'll be able to listen to it on a Windows PC or a regular CD player at home or in their car.
You can use iTunes to convert your recording into an MP3 that is as small as you want it, but the smaller the end result, the poorer the audio quality.

Its says my phone has synced with another iTunes account on the same computer? I Want my garage band songs to go from my phone back to my laptop but they won't

So my Mac got wiped, obviously all my iTunes bought songs and stuff are rested but in lost most of my Garage band Productions, now the ones that had luckily gone to my phone won't transfer to ituens?

No, it is just saying it is a different iTunes library. If your computer was wiped then the original one is gone and the phone does not recognize the library there.
Your i-device was not designed for unique storage of your media. It is not a backup device and media transfer was planned with you maintaining a master copy of your media on a computer which is itself independently backed up against loss. To use a device with a wiped or new computer you transfer the content from the old computer (or its backup) directly to the new computer, not the device to the new computer. Media syncing is one way, computer to device, updating the device content to the content on the computer, not updating or restoring content on a computer. The exception is iTunes Store purchases which can be transferred to a computer. Your Garageband creations are obviously not iTunes Store purchases and should be restored from the backup you make for just this kind of situation.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848 - only purchases from iTunes Store
For transferring other items from an i-device to a computer you will have to use third party commercial software. See this document by turingtest2: Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

How do i convert a garage band recording into a wav file?

I made a recording in Garage Band that I need upload to a particular website, but it only accepts wav files.
Supported WAV formats:
- Mono is preferable to stereo, but stereo is accepted.
- 8000Hz, 16-bit, PCM, mono is the recommended format.
- 44,100Hz, 16-bit, PCM is also supported
- mp3 files are NOT supported
Does anyone know how to do this? I went on You Tube which says to send to iTunes selecting WAV, but it does not seem to be working. Any suggestions?
Andrea

GB doesn't export .wav files. Sharet he file to disk as an uncompressed AIFF file, then use iTunes to convert it to .wav. (Go to iTunes' import settings and select .wav.)

HT5537 How do you import/export garage band projects using the latest version of iTunes when there is no apps in the left column to select garageband?

I am perfectly aware of how to do this using the old version of itunes.
however i just got a new macbook pro retina... and it came with the latest version of itunes.
and i was trying to import/export garage band files between my ipad and mac via itunes.
and the option for apps, that is usually on the left side where you can then select garage band from in itunes, isnt there in the new version of itunes.
has anyone got a work around for this?
thanks.
nic

Nic, for me the iTunes window looks like this, when I connect my iPad 3:
I select the iPad in the "devices" section of the Sidebar (use: "View > Show Sidebar" if the sidebar is hidden).
Click the "Apps" tab in the "Devices" pane.
Scroll all the way down in the Devices pane to "File Sharing" "Apps" section.
Then do I click "GarageBand" to select the documents in the right panel.
Which part is different for you? Perhaps you could post a screenshot?
Regards
Léonie

Is it possible to post a garage band song onto facebook?

is it possible to post a garage band recording onto facebook?

Share your song to your iTunes
Go to http://soundcloud.com/ and open a free account. Soundcloud is a hosting platform. Upload your song from your itunes there.
Copy and paste the URL to your song into a FB post.
Done.

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