File names and GarageBand to iTunes exports

Sep 27, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: Taneashia

As a musician, I have become extremely fond of GarageBand -- I use it to do a lot of recording, both at home and in the studio. One day after finishing up a song, I named it something like Under/Over the_wings. Don't ask my why I decided to name it so quirky, I just did.

Anywho, when I told GarageBand to export (share) to iTunes, it went through the entire process and then the iTunes app opened up for me. However, my song was not anywhere in iTunes. I thought that was pretty odd, so I exported and shared my song to iTunes again. After the entire process was completed (again), iTunes still didn't show that my song was there.

Being the wise person I am, I decided to rename my song without any of those extra things (/, -, _). I then went through the entire process again and this time, my song showed up. The issue didn't take too much time to resolve, but if I had not thought about the possibility of naming it differently (without extra characters), this would have been a long frustrating ordeal. I hope this hint helps other people out there in music-land.

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