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GarageBand won't import all midi files?
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nJm
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Apr 25, 2007, 11:50 AM
 
I've been playing around with GarageBand for the first time tonight and have had fun downloading midi files off the internet and then improving them with decent instruments in Garageband. However I'm finding some midi files simply won't import. I try to drag them into Garagebane but nothing happens, it doesn't show the little green plus cursor to show that it will import the file.

Is there anything I can do to fix this up?
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Apr 25, 2007, 04:31 PM
 
I've had this problem with MIDI files I've downloaded using iCab, where GB simply won't accept it. But when I download it again using curl (from Terminal.app) it works fine. The strange thing is that I can't find any difference in the files! They have the exact same size, and I've had both open in Resorcerer to see if iCab adds any resource forks, but they seem identical...
     
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Apr 25, 2007, 11:11 PM
 
Well that worked! Download the file with Safari and it won't import, use curl and no problems... strange! Thank you very much!
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Apr 26, 2007, 12:29 AM
 
i've also noticed if I export them using QT (to another midifile) it works fine too.
     
   
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