I Can't Import An Audacity AIFF

I do a lot of sound editing and always found it easy to import aiff's from audacity of soundstudio into garageband. However, since soundstudio 2 won't work with my new macbook (what the @#$) I am using audacity. HOWEVER (as many howevers as a pc... hmmm) garageband won't import the aiffs I export from audacity (file type not supported, abort).
This is frustrating. Why must this happen when I am trying to get some work done? Why won't soundstudio v2 work with my newer (better?) mac?

Why must this happen when I am trying to get some work done? Why won't soundstudio v2 work with my newer (better?) mac?
Your newer better Mac uses a Intel processor where your older Mac used a PPC processor. To use Sound Studio you need to upgrade to v3 that is Dual Binary (works on both).

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