Garageband 10.0.2 not exporting large files

The Export panel should show this, when you use "Share > Export Song to Disk":

Bouncing the project as CAF is only possible in Logic - the error message is probably a bug, caused by Logic and GarageBAnd 10 sharing code.

The time is not the limit - Garageband has a maximum number of measures - 1999 measures.

Re: Garageband stops recording after 66 minutes

So, it will depend in the tempo, if you can go beyond 90 minutes. If you set the tempo to 40 bpm, youcan record more than 3 hours.

Right HangTime 😁 wrong bookmark!

Are you writing the files to a drive with a file system that is not MacOSX Extended? Then the file size could be limited by the file system.

AIFF files also have a file size limit: The AIFF file format cannot handle audio file recordings larger than 2 GB.

If you export your song as caf instead, there are no such limits. Only, GarageBAnd cannot share a song as .caf, only Logic can. Use AAC format instead.

I am having the same problem as mplynch:

GarageBand 10.0.2

"The bounce file exceeds the maximum file size (AIFF 2 GB; WAV 4 GB).

Please change the format to CAF, or decrease the bounce range."

There are no options of which you speak. No choice of CAF, AAC, mp3 or AIFF.

All I can figure out is, it exported/shared when I cut it down below 90 minutes. But anything longer still gives me: "The bounce file exceeds the maximum file size (AIFF 2 GB; WAV 4 GB).

Please change the format to CAF, or decrease the bounce range."

thanks for your help

I solved it by dividing my large GarageBand file into 2 smaller GarageBand files (just under 90 minutes each). Then I was able to export both. I re-combined both parts in Audacity into one mp3 file. That worked for me.

Thank you for helping.

There is a work around:

Edit: select all

Edit: Join regions (this will do a mix-down of the track and save an AIFF file in the fie package)

You can't copy/move the file while GB is open but it is kept if you quit without save.

For a 2:27:49 mix I now have an AIFF of 1.56Gb.

iTunes will have to convert it. 😝

Alternative:

Right-Click on Song.band -> show package contents

Under Media/AudioFiles/

You will see:

song.aif

Another Alternative:

Right Click on Song.band -> Open with -> VLC

play the longest file / pick the file you want, right click -> show if finder.

You will see:

song.aif

TADA!!!!

Joining all regions worked great! Thanks.

By the way, is there an easy way to simply divide a GB file into two? In the past, when I had this trouble with longer episodes of my podcast, I created a new file and had to move the latter parts of the show over to it, and line them up correctly all over again. Kind of a pain. Is there an easier way?

By the way, is there an easy way to simply divide a GB file into two?

Duplicate the project. In the copy split all tracks at the same point and then delete all regions in the first half of the project.

Or use the arrangement track: Define two arrangement markers - one for the first half of the project, one covering the second part of the project. Then delete the first arrangement marker together with its regions in the copy of the project, and the second arrangement marker together with its regions in the original project.

From the GarageBand 10 Help:

Delete an arrangement marker together with its regions

Select the arrangement marker, then press Delete to delete the regions in the Tracks area below the arrangement marker so it’s empty. Press Delete again to delete the arrangement marker.

mplynch wrote:

"The bounce file exceeds the maximum file size (AIFF 2 GB; WAV 4 GB). Please change the format to CAF or reduce the bounce range."

This is a typical example that the GarageBand code is basically Logic code, just with features disabled/removed. This error message is a Logic error message where you can change the file format to CAF. Looks like the programmers overlooked that message and didn't remove the "CAF" related text.

Hope that helps

Edgar Rothermich

http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

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hi - this doesn't work for me. Don't suppose you / or anyone else have any other solution ?

I've tried everything mentioned on here - I need CD quality file saved from Garageband. Really frustrating.

Only thing that works is I've created a Soundcloud Account - uploaded the file to there. Downloaded the file and loaded into ITunes, But the file is compressed to **** now.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen

Do you get the same error, when you export as AAC? You can try to convert the AAC later to MP3 in iTunes. It looks like the MP3 export is trying to create an intermediate AIFF file.