a .Mac question about the free music folders given to members

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a .Mac question about the free music folders given to members

Pardon that this question does not belong to this forum, but I searched all through .Mac and could not find a place where I could get a reply to the following:

I have been a .Mac member now for 3 years. In that time there have been free music folders placed in my iDisk for downloading. At this time I have only FREEPLAY MUSIC and ONE sound from the Skywalker sounds. As I recall the Skywalker folder had many more sounds.

Is there a way that one can go back and get the folders of "free" music given to us .Mac members?

BTW: I have a folder of FREEPLAY MUSIC on my Desktop, possibly because I downloaded it from my Music folder in my iDisk. When I clicked onto that Music folder in my iDisk, it had NOTHING IN IT. I tried to put that FREEPLAY music folder back into my iDisk and got a message saying that I could not do that because there was insufficient memory to do so. I have 11 GB of memory on my iMac, so how could there be insufficient memory? I don't think that it could be insufficient memory on the iDisk, because that folder was there to begin with, so if I took it off and now am trying to replace it, it should go back in!

— Lorna in Southern California

17" flatscreen iMac, 1 GHz Power PC G4, 768 MB DDR SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.3.9), LaCie external hard drive, 111 Gigabytes

Posted on Jan 27, 2006 2:47 PM

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Answer 1

Brie Fly

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Jan 27, 2006 3:55 PM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

From what I've heard, that freebie is gone.

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Answer 2

Jan 27, 2006 5:45 PM in response to Brie Fly

From what I've heard, that freebie is gone.

So somehow I have lost that Luke Skywalker folder of sounds! 8-(

Does anyone know what those Garage Band sounds are? Are they sounds that could be used in an iMovie or are they something that only Garage Band can use?

— Lorna in Southern California

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Answer 3

SDIllini

Level 6

16,675 points

Jan 28, 2006 6:38 AM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

Hi Lorna!

You may want to check this site out. I use this free play music all of the time in my movies and you may enjoy them too.

http://freeplaymusic.com/

Sue

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Answer 4

Jan 28, 2006 7:49 AM in response to SDIllini

Hi Lorna!

You may want to check this site out. I use this free
play music all of the time in my movies and you may
enjoy them too.

http://freeplaymusic.com/

Sue

Good heavens, Sue, this is a great website to add to your other recommendation of the Dan Slagle site. I just now downloaded "Confess" as an experiment and will return to the site to check out all of the song and sounds. What kind of movies do you make?

— Lorna in Southern California

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SDIllini

Level 6

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Jan 28, 2006 7:59 AM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

Hi Lorna:

Besides the usual suspects of home video (just for fun-5 kids and a grandson...)

My husband and I own a business and (to make a long story short) our customers send their products in to us and we produce a safety training video for them showing our product working with theirs. I make those videos.

I also would suggest for you to try to play around with GarageBand. I "write" a lot of the background music there. I do have a background in music, but it really isn't necessary to have that to produce great songs there. As a matter of fact, here is another site to add to your library....

www.macjams.com/

Sue

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Answer 6

Jan 28, 2006 8:42 AM in response to SDIllini

Hi Lorna:

My husband and I own a business and (to make a long
story short) our customers send their products in to
us and we produce a safety training video for them
showing our product working with theirs. I make those
videos.

.......... Lorna says ................................................
Oh! What kind of products do your customers send to you to get that safety training video? What is your product that works along with your customers' products?
..........................................................................

I also would suggest for you to try to play around
with GarageBand. I "write" a lot of the background
music there.

.......... Lorna says ................................................
You write the background music for GarageBand???? Or you write the background music for the videos that you produce?
..........................................................................

I do have a background in music, but it

really isn't necessary to have that to produce great
songs there. As a matter of fact, here is another
site to add to your library....

www.macjams.com/

Sue

.......... Lorna says ................................................
I bookmarked the macjams site and will visit it. Thank you for mentioning it! When you say that it isn't necessary to have a background in music to produce great songs there, what is the "there"? You mean that one can produce music in GarageBand without a deep background in music? Or what?
I somewhat play the piano, so I can read notes and my fingers are nimble!
🙂 — Lorna in Southern California {/b]

17" flatscreen iMac, 1 GHz Power PC G4, 768 MB DDR SDRAM Mac OS X (10.3.9) LaCie external hard drive, 111 Gigabytes

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Answer 7

SDIllini

Level 6

16,675 points

Jan 28, 2006 12:39 PM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

Oh! What kind of products do your customers send to you to get that safety training video? What is your product that works along with your customers' products?

We manufacture Vacuum Lifting Systems that assists workers in lifting anything from 2 lbs to 650 lbs. Anheuser-Busch, Perdue Chickedn, General Motors, Toyota, Dell (Sorry Apple!) are some of our customers.

You write the background music for GarageBand???? Or you write the background music for the videos that you produce?

I write music in Garageband that I export to iTunes and then use in iMovie.

what is the "there"? You mean that one can produce music in GarageBand without a deep background in music? Or what?

"There" is GarageBand. No real musical background is necessary really-although it does help if you know a bit about music and composition.

Sue

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Answer 8

Jan 28, 2006 1:31 PM in response to Lorna from Hawaii

Hi Lorna, You ask can Garage Band music be played in iMovie. The answer is yes! When you have created your piece of music (and possibly voice over) in Garage Band, go to [File] down to [Export to iTunes]. Reopen iMovie, go to audio, locate your piece and click on import. Your piece will be imported to the playhead. Garage Band is also a great way to edit a piece of music to a suitable length that doesn't overrun the length of the movie and create that dreaded white space at the end.
AndrewT

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Answer 9

Jan 28, 2006 4:30 PM in response to SDIllini

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"There" is GarageBand. No real musical background is

necessary really-although it does help if you know a
bit about music and composition.

Sue

Does one not need a keyboard or musical instrument connected to the Mac in order to create the music, though? -Lorna

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Answer 10

Jan 28, 2006 4:36 PM in response to IanCharles

Hi Lorna, You ask can Garage Band music be played in
iMovie. The answer is yes! When you have created
your piece of music (and possibly voice over) in
Garage Band, go to [File] down to [Export to iTunes].
Reopen iMovie, go to audio, locate your piece and
click on import. Your piece will be imported to the
playhead. Garage Band is also a great way to edit a
piece of music to a suitable length that doesn't
overrun the length of the movie and create that
dreaded white space at the end.
AndrewT

I see! But actually I expressed myself unclearly earlier. I was asking whether those GarageBand free downloads were "music" that could be used in my iMovies. I now am see that the GarageBand downloads were meant to be used within Garage Band to create a song, which could then be used in an iMovie.

By the way, I read a forum post about that dreaded white space and vaguely recall that someone suggested a way to convert that white space into black space! Also, to slowly lower the volume so that at the end of the movie, there is no sound. That post was in this Discussion group (iMovie and Previous).
— Lorna in Southern California

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