I am a teacher and I use Garageband with my students. They are currently writing songs in Garageband on their iPads, and in general it works well. They can email their songs as an attachment to me after each lesson.
One of the students have a problem with that though. Whenever she tries to export the file and send it via email to me, it converts into a .band-file, and not a playable music file. How can we change that?
Best regards
Daniel, Sweden
Hello there, dannemoller.
It sounds like one of your students is having trouble exporting their file in a playable format to send to you. The following link to the online GarageBand Help Guide provides steps and how to choose an appropriate extension when sharing via MailDrop:
Share a song via Mail
In GarageBand, choose Share > Mail.
In the Mail dialog, do the following:
Select Project, if you want to share a project that recipients can open and edit it in GarageBand on another Mac.
All audio-related settings are unavailable.
Select Song, if you want to share an audio file mixdown that recipients can open and play in iTunes, or any app that supports .m4a files.
You can edit the following settings:
Enter a new name in the Title field.
Choose an audio format from the Quality pop-up menu.
Choose whether to bounce the entire project, or only part of it based on the cycle area or the length of selected regions.
Click Share.
If a mail account is available, a new email is created.
The project or song attachment will be delivered, even if the size exceeds the maximum allowed size for attachments.
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Cheers.
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