Chapter 23
CD Recording, Reproduction, and Distribution
IN THIS CHAPTER
Exporting your GarageBand songs to iTunes
Creating the final CD
Distributing your CDs
I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume you’d like to share your marvelous music with other people. Although sending a file via email or iMessage is easy, sometimes it’s more professional to send something physical, such as an audio CD.
When you burn a CD, you don’t have to even think about file formats, compatibility, or compression, because the songs on your audio CD are uncompressed by default. Plus, an audio CD is likely to work in almost any CD player — car, home, or pocket.
By the way, though it might be possible in theory to burn a CD from your iDevice, it’s not a supported feature and isn’t covered in this chapter. If you want to burn a song you created on an iDevice to a CD, share the file to your Mac and burn it there.
The Benefits of Burning CDs
If you haven’t already burned CDs on your Mac, you really should become familiar with the process because it’s useful for more than just GarageBand. But for the purposes of this chapter, I’m assuming that you want your friends to hear these great tunes you're making ...
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