Iweb vs garage band file size

I posted this in iweb and thought maybe that was the wrong place. I opened garage band...found a simple piano loop...added it to timeline thing...made it loop for about 30 seconds by draging it. I saved it as the small option for sharing and it ends up around 9 megs. How can an itunes song be 2-3 and a simple 30 second loop 9? How can I make it smaller for iweb and how do I export or put it on my page properly? Mainly how to make it smaller??? I have never used garage band befor, am I missing a step?
Thanks and sorry for the double post!!!

I asume you used GB3's Share > Send Song to iTunes. Then, under iTunes, if you're using AIFF format (as I do), it's going to be bigger than an MP3 or AAFC file. Forgive me if this is a "duh," but if you go into Preferences > Advanced and change AIFF to MP3 or AAC encoding, you can then Command-click to convert the track into a dupe with the smaller format.
Those formats are pretty universal. I've streamed as well as put them in my Public iDisk folder in my old Homepage site. And while I haven't gotten to my iWeb version...
You might want to check out, in GB3, the feature under File > Save As > Compact Project. There you can select 64, 128 or 192 kbps AAC. You may/not need to also select Archive in the same screen. I haven't used this yet or read about it - someone else would know better - but it seems to me that it's (not a compression tool but) a streaming buffer optimizer.
Hope this helps. I'll want to visit back here myself, soon as I get cranking on my own stuff.

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The only option is to lower the sound quality of your MP3s. There are several presets in iTunes, and you can customize it. What's your present bitrate?

Need to rescue Garage Band Files with Data Rescue II - what kind of files?

Hi all -
After a particularly gruesome computer crash, I am trying to reconstruct my lost files using Data Rescue II..... This program goes into the damaged hard drive and downloads all intact files it can find, but it is NOT able to label everything correctly. All it can do is divide things into folders - Audio files, document files, images, mail, misc., and movies. And within these folders are other folders - for instance, in the "Audio" rescued folder, there are hundreds of AIFF files, AIFF1 files, AIFF2, MP3, WAV, m4a, and m4p files.
My question is: can someone please tell me what the heck a Garage Band project file is? That would save me a lot of time in digging through all this material trying to find one....
(Don't get me wrong... I'm grateful to have stuff to dig through! I just hope my Garage Band files are intact and recoverable.)
Has anyone had success saving Garage Band files with Data Rescue II?
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Aaaagh!
I spoke too soon. Yes,I did indeed find the file that contained all the files I needed to retrieve (using Disk Rescue II). When my 6-hour download of the 78 GB folder finished, I check the files again, and they weren't located in the orphaned section, but in the Hard Drive section under the normal directory, in a folder called .Trashes - within that there was another folder called "501", which contained all the Garageband files I needed to retrieve. However, when I tried to open the downloaded "rescued" files, they were inside a folder called "Macintosh HD", which could not be opened, and I got a message that said "Could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges." Not only that, but even after 6 hours of (apparently) downloading the 78 GB folder, my hard drive, which had close to 83 GB of free space, said STILL had almost that same amount.
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Here's the full story, for anyone with the patience to listen and offer advice. It looks like now I'm looking for a way to 1) get the permissions to open the .trashes file so that I can download everything, or 2) figure out a way to get Disk Rescue II to open the files and download them regardless of the permissions.
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The day the computer crashed, I was working on a Garage Band project, which kept crashing, and I was also using Finale, Microsoft Word, and iTunes -- all of which are my normal procedure and I'd never had any problems with anything before loading the new Garage Band 08. (See my posts on other discussion topics for more details). After the last freeze, the computer crashed totally and could not be restarted - it would get to the gray screen with the spinning gear and just sit there while the fans ramped up to overload.
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I decided to try an archive install in the hopes that I could just restart my computer and get the files out by hand. The archive install went fine, and the computer started up fine and got to the log-in screen, which had changed. I now had two blanks - one for user name and one for password, instead of the choices of names. I tried all my user names and passwords, and asked my wife for her names and passcodes, but nothing worked. The computer had apparently re-set all its permissions and User accounts. I tried using Disk Utility to reset the password in its opening screens, but instead of getting several User options, the only one it allowed me to attempt was "System Administrator (root)", and even that wouldn't let me in to change any passwords.
That's when I downloaded Data Rescue II, which does seem to do a good job of locating lost files. However, since I didn't have permissions to open the computer the last time, I am still apparently facing the same thing when I try to access files copies OFF the computer.
So I'm not out of the woods yet. I can see the files on the Data Rescue screen, but I don't know whether they have permissions tied to them or not, and if they do, whether the system would let me since I don't know what the passwords and user names have defaulted back to.
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I should have explained... Yes, I know that all you have to do is "double" click on a file to open it. However, when I double click on the Garage Band file, Garage Band does launch, but the file is not there. There is nothing in the timeline area to play or review. The Garage Band application is simply empty as though you were going to start a new project.
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I had an audio file made on Garage Band but it was unsaved. I left my computer on at night and for some reason this morning my computer had seemed tor restart. I opened the garage band file but nothing came up.
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I would just like to say Thanks to HangTime up there. This trick worked 100% ... I had recorded 8 or 9 rather long tracks; for an unexpected reason (first time I've ever seen the "gray screen of death") the popup window came up and in several languages told me I needed to restart the computer; did what it told me to, begrudingly. Came back online, opened the GB file, nothing was there. Yet, when I checked package contents for the file (which I didn't even know existed, compartmentalized "Media", until after reading this), there were the tracks! I owe you both for getting this up and running... album creds just may be in line. ~Matt

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I created a song in Garage Band, and opened it in Logic.
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That's not the problem. The song is at 126 bpm throughout.
I did a quick test with another Garage Band beat, and everything was OK. I have no idea why the metronome would be off with the other tune I created in Garage Band. Very annoying.

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hi each and all out there!
i've looked for answers through the help section of garage band and can't find any topics that fit my situation (so far that is :-)).
a friend recently held a memorial service for her husband and i both video taped and audio taped the service.
She would like some editing done on each (video and audio).
i have a mac air that is pretty much filled up and so i need to work on these files not on my computer, rather from an external drive.
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http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html#converttomp3

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Sam

No, backup files are only created for documents, but not for project packages, like GarageBand projects. But GarageBand should prompt you to save the project, when you try to quit and the project has not been saved. Did GarageBand crash, so it could not save the project? In that case, the recorded audio should be still in the project package. Your daughter could try to ctrl-click the project ( the My Song.band) she created and use "Show Package Contents". The "Media" folder should have her recorded adio files.
And if she is lucky, Time Machine may have save the previous version as hourly backup, if she is using TimeMachine and the backup drive was connected.
-- Léonie

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I created a .band file using Garage Band for iOS on myiPad. I uploaded it to iCloud. I was able to open it on my iMac (Mavericks). It is saved to iCloud. However,it has disappeared from my list of songs on the iPad. How can I get it back on the iPad from iCloud?!?
I know that it is there, and all the iMac and the iPad have Garage Band activiated and logged in to the correct iCloud account.
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No. You can't see the folder because you don't have access to the file system like you do on a PC. If you uploaded a word document to iCloud drive, then you will need an app like Word or Pages or another word compatible program installed on the iPad to be able to view them.

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I am a film director whose scorer composed the soundtrack in Garage Band 3. I cannot open it in GB 2.0.2? Do I need to pay for an update or can I open it in Final Cut Pro or Soundtrack Pro? I want to be able to manipulate some of the instrumentation tracks so I am wondering if there is another way to open the files (besides GB 3) so that all the individual tracks are sequenced as originally composed.

Depends. If the tracks were made using Software Instruments, you must use GarageBand. Logic may be able to open this file.
If the tracks were made using Real Instruments, you can right-click on the file, "Show Package Contents" and copy the files from the Media folder. You can then drop these files into FinalCut.
However, really, $79 to upgrade to GarageBand 4 is not a bad investment for your movie. Especially seeing that you can import the video to get your edits just right.

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I'm trying to transfer some music files I recorded on Garage Band for use on a PC. Although I copied the files on to the PC when I try to convert them using Roxio I'm told the files are in a format that cannot be read. I was presuming that if they were converted to MP3 format I could open them either using I-Tunes or Quick Time Player. I also tried the "Share" option within Garage Band itself - this goes through the process of apparently converting the file and sending it to a designated playlist on I-Tunes, but nothing seems to have happened when I check that location on I-Tunes.

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Using the Share menu in Garageband:
Instead of sending your song to iTunes, try the Export Song to Disk option instead. Then, select Compress, and Compress Using Mp3 encoder (whatever quality you like). Then, when you get the Save dialog box, make sure the "Hide Extension" box on the lower left is UNchecked. Click save, and transfer the Mp3 to the PC.

Lost garage band file

i've been working on a song for days on garage band. Yesterday when I went to sit down to work on the song, the file was completely gone. I tried searching it and spotlighting it but no luck. It isn't in recent documents or anything. The trash was empty. Is there any other place this document could have disappeared to?

Do you have external drives? If so, you might want to check them, turn them off and on again so that the system will see them. If the file is on a drive which is not seen by OSX, you won't see the file.
If you don't see any response for .band, that suggests that you are not searching correctly since it is unlikely that you have NO GB files on your machine. If you know some part of the name, use that instead of .band.
Use find instead of spotlight. Sometimes Spotlight is quirky and does not see some files, whereas the find function seems more stable for some reason - beats me.

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On my older Macbook i have always been able to easily turn my .band files into mp3s under the Advanced heading in itunes, but with my Macbook Pro, that is not an option. The option has become "Create AAC version". How can I turn my .band files into mp3s so that I can load them onto my web page and my students can pick them up as mp3s and put them on their devices?

The option has become "Create AAC version".
Your iTunes importing preferences are currently set to AAC. If you change your Importing preferences to mp3, the option should then become "Create mp3 version". See the following document for some more details:
iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format

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