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I wonder if it is possible to transform the files that we make in Band in a Box into mp3 files that can be read in a regular CD player or in an Ipod.
Thank you
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Jorge
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Jorge
If you click on the SAVE AUDIO button (it's a picture of a microphone superimposed on a floppy disc) then you get the chance to save the band in a box file as an audio file. I save them as AIFF's - and then I load them into iTunes, and you can convert the AIFF into an MP3 in iTunes.
Hope that makes sense.
Paul
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Hi Paul
Thanks so much for the information! I tried it already and it worked. ITunes could not convert it into the mp3 format for some reason, but it did create an Audio CD that I can read in my CD player. Are there any options in the SAVE AUDIO function in BIAB that you use that will subsequently allow ITunes to convert the file into mp3?
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Jorge
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Save the song as an M4A file instead of AIFF. Itunes reads those with no problem.
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FYI - iTunes (the good folks at Apple) figure that if it isn't already an MP3 of some version, then you don't have copy rights and thus, don't have the right to make a copy - that's why it blocks making mp3's from AIFF, etc.
BIAB does a great job of exporting an mp3 file and these are easily dragged/dropped into GarageBand where you can export it to an mp3 with different compression resolutions. However, if you plan to do that, it's better to retain the audio quality by exporting it as AIFF in BIAB first, then make the 'custom' mp3 settings/output with GarageBand.
Incidentally, for kicks, I exported a few tunes using BIAB with various solos and trading 4's, then recorded the head and my solos with GarageBand, sent the file to some bandmates/and or played the CD - I didn't tell them it was BIAB. They responded saying things like:
"Wow, I'm amazed how much better we sound on recording versus when we play"
"I know that's your guitar, our drummer and bass, is that really me playing the piano? I don't remember playing those lines"
Of course, I fessed up, they laughed. I wager they're placing orders for their copy of BIAB.
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That's weird.
My version of iTunes - which is just the bog standard version that shipped with the MacBook and gets upgraded from time to time - lets me open AIFF files and then I can just use the 'Convert Selection to MP3' drop down from the Advanced Menu.
At the moment I'm doing some lessons on sight reading for bass and I program a bunch of 'play along' tracks every week - they are all exported as AIFF files and I have no problem converting them to MP3s. So it should work....though loading the AIFFs into Garageband and then exporting them will also work just as well.
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