Garage Band cuts the end of a song when I bounce the track to iTunes.

This is happening to me too. It has only ever happened in the newest version of GarageBand. I never had this problem before in older versions. I consider myself a pretty avid GarageBand user and can usually figure out just about anything, but this is frustrating. It should not be bouncing the tracks the way it is. Any help from an Apple rep?

Any help from an Apple rep?

This is a User-to-User forum, so Apple reps don't post here frequently.

What have you tried? Have you checked the end-of-song marker? It is playing hide-and-seek in the newest GarageBand. Usually you are seeing just a tiny piece of the triangle peeping out behind the zoom controls. When you set the zoom slider to zoom out all the way, you may be able to grab the end-of-song marker and to move it to the end of your song.

Yeah, that end-of-song marker is so poorly placed! I have moved it though. I actually moved it a good 2 minutes to the right of where the song ends and it still exports the song with the same arbitrary ending point that is a good 12 seconds before the tracks actually end. Very weird.

How have you set the option "Export Cycle area only or length of selected regions"? This option is only available in the "Share" panel if the Cycle Area is active or regions are selected.

Try, if you can bounce the full song, if you deselect all regions and mark the cycle area instead.

You don't have by any chance a volume automation active, that fades out your song prematurely?

Hey, thank you for taking a look into this on this thread and the others that cover this same topic. I think there are a few of us that have looked into the advice you have already posted and are still having the problem. In my case I do have a volume automation active but it doesn't fade out the song until the very end and when bouncing the song is being cut off much earlier than that. I sent feedback but the screen said I would not be contacted. I do think it is a programming issue but if you have any other pointers I am willing to try. I have the end of the track set to a reasonable point. I've tried bouncing with the box unchecked, and with everything selected and the box checked. I've extended the end of the track to try and incorporate all of the song but it still cuts it off at the same place. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you for your time. Also it is not a long track and I have tried sharing it at different quality levels.

Hi

I've had the same problem when exporting to iTunes.

I have noticed though, that the song does not end at a random point, but at the end of one of the tracks. In my case it was the end of a drums section.

What I've done was, I have added some random loops of drums to this track, all the way to the end of my last section of music.

Then, I have turned ON the automation for this track and reduced the volume to zero for the added loops. This way the program thinks, that this particular track is much longer.

When I have bounced the song, it has exported properly to iTunes.

I hope this helps.

I think I may have found a fix. I was having this issue recently too. I turned the loop on and adjusted it to cover the whole song. Then hit command A then went to share send to iTunes and selected the box "export cycle area only, or length of selected regions. I don't know why but it worked and did not cut the end off my track. This is great. I hope it works for you. Good luck

JoCarlin, with your 'fix', you nonetheless are getting an additional blank space (~ 4 secs in duration) added to the end of your song--as I describe in this thread (GarageBand creating blank space after song. )--correct?

This one fixed it for me. Thanks!!