I would like to use Garage Band to edit wav files I have, but it won't recognize them - only seems to work with songs I imported from cassette tapes. Why?
iMAC, Mac OS X (10.5.7)
.wav is a proprietry MicroSoft format. There could be licencing issues involved.
You should be able to convert them to a useable format with Audacity (or indeed just do the editing in Audacity).
It's free and I use it a lot. (in fact I'm recording the Goons with it right now).
Thanks for the suggestion. I do have the option to use Total Recorder in Windows which I also have on my Mac. That is also free and I used it a lot when I had PC. So guess that is the route I will take. Just thought I would see if I could do it in Garage Band as the sound view is bigger than in TR, and also I wouldn't have to switch over to Windows. By the way, does Audacity take up a lot of space on the hard drive? I don't want to clog it up with too much stuff.
Audacity folder in my Applications is 61.2 MB.
(GarageBand is 334.8 MB)
Thanks muchly. I'll definitely look into it.
Why doesn't Garage Band use wav files?
