Drag and Drop from Apple Music into Garageband no longer working under Monterey

Running Big Sur. Cannot Drag and drop files from Music App into Grage Band Timeline - a method that has worked since iTunes was invented. Frustrating.

The suggestion to resize the windows and have the "drag" cross the Desktop mometarily also does not work.

But it brings forth a workaround. Drag the song to the desktop (which take like :01 to create a new file) and then drag the desktop file to GB. Later delete the desktop files. Only takes an extra few seconds.

But really, a flaw in something this basic from the company that originally developed drag and drop?? DUMB, Apple, DUMB.

I have Monterey. Sometimes drag and drop works, sometimes not. But what always works for me now is right clicking the song in iTunes. Click “copy”. Click “paste” on the track in GB, and it falls right in. Try that.

I am having the exact same problem. What has worked for me is to drag all the songs I'm working with in Music onto the desktop and then drag and drop into GarageBand. Trying to drag and drop directly out of Music seems to be completely broken under Monterey 12.01. There are no error messages, and you can drag out of Music but absolutely nothing happens when you try to drop into GarageBand. It's almost like GarageBand is treating the files as incompatible.

thanks

I had the same issue. With first voice recording, drag and dropping the iTunes song into Garageband worked. Second time, with a new voice recording, it did not work. It finally worked when I isolated the song into finder, as suggested in this thread, and then right-clicked on the song. I scrolled down to "copy". Then I went into Garageband and right clicked on the track, right below the voice recording, and clicked "paste". Shocked that it worked! I have no idea why I even tried that. Wasn't even thinking. Just grabbing at straws. Try it!

Good day to you The Herd Family, 

We understand that you’re encountering an issue when dragging a song from the Music app to GarageBand. 

Do you see any error messages when attempting to perform this action? To clarify, when dragging and dropping are you dragging to an audio track or to the empty area below the existing tracks in the Tracks area?

Thanks. 

The Herd Family, 

We'd still recommend reaching out and working with Apple on the matter, if you have the opportunity. When something changes with an update, the more reports of it the better.

If you prefer to use Apple's feedback site you can do that as well - Product Feedback

Thank you.

Oh, you better believe they're gonna hear about it. I use GarageBand as part of the process in putting together an annual slideshow presentation as part of my job. I was already frustrated last year with the updates to the program, and now even their "solution" isn't viable. This is COMPLETELY unacceptable! I swear, losing Steve Jobs was the worst thing that happened to Apple. They literally have no idea what they're doing without him.

The Herd Family, 

It does sound like you’re following the steps from the User Guide Import audio and MIDI files in GarageBand on Mac and as a frequent user this has worked in previous iterations of GarageBand for you. 

Here are some general troubleshooting steps for GarageBand, if you’ve performed one already, feel free to skip it and move to the next - If GarageBand isn't working on your Mac

Should the situation persist, reaching out to Apple Support for a closer look at the issue would be the next step and you can reach them by starting with Music, Apps & Services > Mac apps here - Apple Get Support. 

Thanks.