Q: GarageBand adds 1.5 seconds track time when exporting to iTunes
I recorded a 12-bar track in garageband 10.1.2 and wanted it to end exactly on bar 12, so that it would start in time again when set on loop. In garage band this worked, but every time I exported it to iTunes, it ended up there with additional 1.5 seconds at the end of the track, so that looping wouldn't work any more. I set the "end" arrow in garage band correctly and somtimes had the "loop" function activated, but nothing helped. In my older version of garage band this was never a problem, and at the end I had to do it on my old mac... Any ideas?
Posted on Jun 14, 2016 12:55 AM
GarageBand adds the additional silence to let the reverb fade out. And to allow extra silence for cross fading in iTunes.
I tested again -
- If I export a song with "Share > Song to iTunes" and select the measures I want to be exported wit the cycle region, and mark "Cycle region only" two extra seconds will be added.
- If I export a song withe "Share > Song to iDisk" and select the measures I want to be exported wit the cycle region, and mark "Cycle region only", I get exactly the selected measures.
So try the detour to export first to your desktop, and then add the song to iTunes manually with "File > Add to Library". That is working for me.
Posted on Jun 14, 2016 10:12 AM