I finally got the time to install the iLife suite onto the Mac mini today and after hanging about for what seemed forever for the Updates to come down, (how many megabytes worth of updates can you have, thank goodness for a very big download and broadband connection, someone on dialup would never live through this).
Once installed though the new Garage Band looked very nice indeed. Looking around though I couldn’t find the import button to import the iPod tracks. A quick look through HELP, (I hate going there….), and I foudn out that all you have to do is drag things onto the track timeline. Now that is simple I thought and it was, sort off. The track was there and easily manipulable but when I played it I thought chipmunks had invaded. Obviously the time is different from the iPod record rate to Garage Band. I have tried a couple of things to try and rectify the problem all to no good effect. Hmmm back to the Audacity again.
Speaking of the afore mentioned program, even that let me down as I was compiling our latest podcast file. On the Mac I got almost to the end of the file conversion to mp3 and it spat the dummy. The program ended almost mid sentence. Trying to ressurect the file things got no better and in the end I decided to transfer the files to the PC. More problems ensued in this transfer before I finally succeeded. After another set of edits, which I had already gone through on the Mac, I finally had the program complete. Now to upload it.
