import songs from itunes to gb??

[snowy_goofy]

Heya

When go to drag any music file from either finder or itunes to garage band it doesnt show the plus sign and when i drop it it just kind slings back to where it came from??

any idea what im doing wrong

sorry if its obvious

thanks in advance

josh


Edit!!!!!!!!!!


it lets me darg and drop song that have been imported from a cd but not from the net ???


oh wait it lets me use song i recently download directly from the computer becuz all other song are off my ipod using copy pod or soemthing from my windows computer

thanks in advance


please help

 

[NanoBite]

Do you have GarageBand2? What format are the music files?

 

[snowy_goofy]

um the latest one i guess it came with the comp wich i s about 3 days old
and mp3 files

thanks for reponce

 

[NanoBite]

Do the controls look like this?

 

[snowy_goofy]

yep just like that

 

[NanoBite]

Thats GarageBand 3. So, if you press the i button, from the media browser window that appears, can you drag any mp3's to the track window?

 

[snowy_goofy]

i can drag from, there but as soon as i drop it slings back

 

[D3v1L80Y]

Are you creating a new, blank track for each MP3 you are trying to drop in?

 

[snowy_goofy]

iv tried that and iv also tried just droping it below a track like it says in the help section of garage band im doing egsactly what it says ( i think :S)

and it just doesnt seem to wanna do it

 

[NanoBite]

I think you need to create a Real Instrument track to import the mp3 onto ...

 

[D3v1L80Y]

Yes, it has to be a Real Instrument. Vocals is the best option to use for MP3s as it won't add any special voice or effect.

 

[snowy_goofy]

doesnt work lol this is anoying

is there any other way insted of drag and drop.

 

[D3v1L80Y]

Drag and Drop is the fastest, easiest way... and quite frankly, the only way I know how.
Try trashing your GarageBand .plst file and see if that helps. It certainly won't hurt anything.
Outside of that, I really can't understand why it isn't working for you if you are doing things the way Pulse-8 and I have described.

 

[NanoBite]

Go to iTunes library and make sure the alias of the MP3 is a working alias, ie: when you click on the song you don't get an exclamation mark to the left of the song name.

 

[snowy_goofy]

what do u mean .pls file (sorry im a switcher)

when i clik on a song it plays :S

 

[NanoBite]

The songs showing in your iTunes library are just links to the music file which is stored elsewhere on your Mac. It's the same for Windows...if you have a song in your itunes library that is moved from its location on your HardDrive, then the link to it is broken and so when you click on that song in iTunes ... it can't find the original file so it displays an exclamation mark to the left of the song and moves on to the next working link.

I thought that might be why you couldn't drag the song into GB, because the original song had been moved.

 

[snowy_goofy]

nope they play fine

thanks for ur help does anyone no what im doing wrong is there such thing as remote assistance on mac

 

[NanoBite]

You might try deleting the pref file for iTunes & GarageBand, emptying the trash and then logging out then back in. Also check your Permissions through Disc Utility (Macintosh HD>Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility>Repair Disk Permissions)

The pref files for those apps can be found at:

YourUserAccount>Library>Prefs ... delete anything with iTunes or Garageband in it.

 

[snowy_goofy]

nope still not work

 

[snowy_goofy]

it doesnt work in soundtrack either i must be doing soemthing wrong