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#1 2004-01-08 11:52 am
- innervision
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GarageBand Jam Pack
anyone at MWSF seen this? it's advertised on apple's website as adding a bunch of loops for hip-hop and electronica plus more instruments, but is it worth the extra $99?!
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#3 2004-01-08 12:38 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
It adds 100 new software instruments, 15 amps, and 2000 more loops.
I definetly think its worth it.
Plus, its only $79 with an educational discount. 
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#4 2004-01-08 12:46 pm
- Twisted Guy
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
also, what about us people who don't have DVD drives?
how are we supposed to be able to use the jam pack?
You're screwed.
All hail Xenu!
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#5 2004-01-08 12:48 pm
Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
also, what about us people who don't have DVD drives?
how are we supposed to be able to use the jam pack?
Well, if you buy a new Mac, you get iLife for free, so you're ahead $49. 
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#6 2004-01-08 12:56 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
Seriously though, if you want GarageBand and the Jam Pack, but don't have a DVD drive, I'm sure you could get an external FireWire DVD ROM, or get an external FireWire case and put a standard ATA DVD ROM drive in it and hook that up to your computer.
Of course, this is assuming your computer is not a pre B&W Power Mac, or pre DV iMac model.
All hail Xenu!
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#7 2004-01-08 1:08 pm
Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
seriously though, i have no need to buy a new dvd-rom.
the only 'need' i have for one is that Apple keeps putting crap on dvd-roms so i am smurfed in the long run.
and no, i don't have a B&W or an iMac.
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#8 2004-01-08 1:25 pm
- knobtwirler
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
How about if you happen to own a firewire external HD and have a friend that can make a backup of the DVD ROM onto your HD?
If you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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#9 2004-01-08 1:28 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
bittorrent it is...
is it still illegal to download it if you already purchased it?
(its probably illegal, some stupid chunk of copyright law, but is it immoral?)
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#10 2004-01-08 1:29 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
the only 'need' i have for one is that Apple keeps putting crap on dvd-roms...
Well, if you want them to put GarageBand and the Jam Pack on 6-7 CDs, and have to sit through an install of that many CDs, go right ahead.
All hail Xenu!
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#11 2004-01-08 1:35 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
How about if you happen to own a firewire external HD and have a friend that can make a backup of the DVD ROM onto your HD?
I don't know. I have a feeling that it'll have a number of files to the System folder or the Library folder, such as Application Support files, and things of that nature, so it'll be, at the very least, a hassle to do it that way.
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#12 2004-01-08 1:37 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
How about if you happen to own a firewire external HD and have a friend that can make a backup of the DVD ROM onto your HD?
I don't know. I have a feeling that it'll have a number of files to the System folder or the Library folder, such as Application Support files, and things of that nature, so it'll be, at the very least, a hassle to do it that way.
so do it the easy way.. make a disk image of the dvd...
mount it and install...
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#13 2004-01-08 1:39 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
How about if you happen to own a firewire external HD and have a friend that can make a backup of the DVD ROM onto your HD?
I don't know. I have a feeling that it'll have a number of files to the System folder or the Library folder, such as Application Support files, and things of that nature, so it'll be, at the very least, a hassle to do it that way.
so do it the easy way.. make a disk image of the dvd...
mount it and install...
That's how I plan on getting it onto my DVD-less G4/400.
All hail Xenu!
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#14 2004-01-09 3:30 pm
- Light Speed
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
also, what about us people who don't have DVD drives?
how are we supposed to be able to use the jam pack?
Just have someone burn it to a stack of floppies for you.
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#15 2004-01-09 3:49 pm
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
also, what about us people who don't have DVD drives?
how are we supposed to be able to use the jam pack?
What about those of us who don't have pickups, how the hell does Yamaha expect me to haul my 4 wheeler around. I have no use for a pick up or a trailer other than to haul this around. This is bullcrap. They should make these 4 wheelers for those of us with regular cars.
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#16 2004-01-10 12:34 am
- innervision
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
also, what about us people who don't have DVD drives?
how are we supposed to be able to use the jam pack?What about those of us who don't have pickups, how the hell does Yamaha expect me to haul my 4 wheeler around. I have no use for a pick up or a trailer other than to haul this around. This is bullcrap. They should make these 4 wheelers for those of us with regular cars.
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#17 2004-01-10 7:57 am
Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
seriously though, i have no need to buy a new dvd-rom.
the only 'need' i have for one is that Apple keeps putting crap on dvd-roms so i am smurfed in the long run.
and no, i don't have a B&W or an iMac.
It's idiots like you that screw over the rest of us. 
The day that all my games and operating systems come on a single DVD which can copy over install data at 20 MB/sec can't come soon enough.
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#18 2005-02-01 7:57 am
- fennerio
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
blightx wrote:
also, what about us people who don't have DVD drives?
how are we supposed to be able to use the jam pack?
Well, this is kind of an elaborate process, but I did manage to install GarageBand from the iLife '04 installer DVD onto a PowerMac with no DVD player. I navigated through the DVD (using my iMac that DOES have a DVD drive) until I found the GarageBand installer packages. They weren't hard to find. I copied those to my desktop and zipped them up. This was about 1.4+Gb in size, so I had to break it up onto 3 CDs to transport it to the PowerMac.
I found a program that does just that (can't think of the name of it right now) - busts big files into smaller ones and then puts it back together - and used it to break the zip file into 3 chunks. Burned them onto CDs, and reconstituted the file on the PowerMac.
GarageBand installed perfectly and without a flaw.
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#19 2005-02-01 8:04 am
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Re: GarageBand Jam Pack
Didn't I read recently also that you can call the Apple Store and request to buy software on CD instead of DVD? I seem to recall reading a post about a guy who was ticked off that the software he bought came on a DVD and he didn't have a drive, so he called the Apple Store and they shipped him out CD installers (for a fee). I seem to recall it was iWork or something.
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