[DM-MUG] making a 10 minute music piece from 3 mp3 or mp4s

[Bryan Baker]

A track is where the audio waveform is, and also on the right side the  
control area. You can have as many as you want (up to the machine's  
limits) 2 or 3 should work for this. If you drag a wave below an  
existing track and drop it it should make a new one.

once you have your tracks click the little downward pointing triangle  
(next to the lock icon) that reveals the automation  for that track -  
you can just draw the fades by clicking along the line and dragging.

On May 5, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
>> I believe GarageBand will let you add protected MP4s as tracks. In  
>> fact I believe there is a media drawer to access other iLife media  
>> right there. I'd put each tune on a separate track, adjust the  
>> start points to where you want them in the show, then use the fader  
>> automation tools to fade up / down the tracks as needed. Also  
>> adjust the end point (the little purple left facing triangle thingy  
>> up in the timing bar to the point you want the resulting file to end.
>>
>> All in all I think GB is your best bet, since it's part of iLife, I  
>> believe they anticipated people using the occasional protected tune  
>> for their own use. If you want to be a bit "safer" about it you  
>> could just leave it in GB and play it from there, not saving a  
>> resulting mixdown file. THe trick would then be triggering it to  
>> play when you want. I have a nice little transport box that'll do  
>> that, but it's overkill for your project.
>
> This is very helpful, thanks much.
> By the way, GB, Audacity and MP3Trimmer - none of them will work  
> with the AAC thing.  I may play it and record it on my ipod then  
> work with it??
>
> I had a copy of the song that won't work and it comes in fine but  
> it's not the version we want to use == the one we want is the locked  
> file and when I try to drag it in it says  "you cannot import a  
> "rights-protected AAC audio file".  I do however have the three  
> songs [using the version of #3 that I can import] now in GB with one  
> on each line.
>
> Now what? Not being sure what a track is and how you get #1 to go  
> for so long before #2 and then play #2 to go for so long and then in  
> comes #3, I'm at a loss == I tried to do a Cut to get rid of the  
> part of #1 I didn't wnt or need and it deleted the whole thing...
>
> I see that I can move the 2nd thing [track?] to the Right and put it  
> at the endpoint of the 1st track but can't get the lst one to be cut  
> or end when I want...
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