Apple today offered .Mac members 100 free ‘World Music Sampler’ GarageBand Jam Pack loops:
You might be a virtuoso, or just an air guitar prodigy. Either way, GarageBand lets you create, perform, and record your own music, by putting you in control of your own professional recording studio with hundreds of instruments. Add a GarageBand Jam Pack, and it’s like having a vast pool of session musicians and a record producer at your disposal.
And right now, you have the exclusive opportunity to find out for yourself what a difference Jam Pack can make. Because .Mac members can download a free sampling of 400 Jam Pack loops – 100 loops each from the all-new World Music Jam Pack, along with Symphony Orchestra, Remix Tools, and Rhythm Section. Use them to build a foundation for your solos, or create an entire composition of your own. You can also add loops to your podcasts and even score a musical soundtrack for your iMovie or iDVD project.
400 free GarageBand Jam Pack loops. You’ve got to like the sound of that.
More info about the World Music Sampler (60.21 MB) for .Mac members here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “jayplus” for the heads up.]
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can anyone host the files?
Free loops are good
Fruit loops are not.
can anyone host the files?
Give me a few minutes, come back to this thread later.
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They’ve been available for a while. They also removed the other jampacks.
Upload speeds are slow s-l-o-o-o-w, because ISP’s don’t want people to host websites on their personal machines. I’m redlined so hang in there.
Total 363 MB worth of Jam Pack sample files @ apx. 47 KB per second (upload)
Do the math, anyone have a idea when this will be finished?
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Dont be hatin’ on Fruit Loops
wish they’d give us a break on the price
Wish they’d give us instruments instead of loops…
Not really any enticement for me to sign up. Sorry.
powermacguy, that would be theft. Apple creates these packages at some cost and deserves to profit from their efforts. If you don’t want to pay the $99 for a .Mac account, then pay the $99 for the full 3,000 loop package. That’s less than a nickel a loop. If you are serious about GarageBand, you won’t be satisfied with a mere 100 out of the 3,000 in the package.
So … any way you cut it, you are asking someone to steal for you, something you do not value much at all.
DLMeyer,
Apple is no fool, they know when they release ANYTHING it would be widely circulated on the internet. Heck I bet it’s on PB right now.
They are giving this loops to .Mac users because they know they are the dedicated Macheads which in turn will give it to other MacHeads which will increase usage of Garageband.
After all it’s not like Windows users can use it, so why bother having a download link that the zillions of Winfools visiting Apple’s website and will be burning up their bandwidth?
Also it’s a form of free publicity for .Mac and a reward for those who sign up.
Also it’s only a SAMPLE, not the whole package. Apple most likely wants it to be widely circulated to increase sales of the WHOLE Jam Pack.
Remember, this is APPLE, marketing guru’s and product cult generating experts.
By the way the Jam Pack Sampler doesn’t come with any restrictions or agreements on it’s use.
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Static Mesh, you apparently have not been paying attention. So, from the top of this page …
Apple gives .Mac members 100 free ‘World Music Sampler’ GarageBand Jam Pack loops
Apple today offered .Mac members 100 free ‘World Music Sampler’ GarageBand Jam Pack loops:
If that is not clear enough, look in the Software folder on your iDisk, the loops are found in the subfolder names Members Only.
From the .Mac Home Page: For members only: World Music added to Jam Pack samplers
From the Download page: (World Music Sampler, Symphony Orchestra Sampler, Remix Tools Sampler, and Rhythm Section Sampler are only available to full members.)
Are you seeing a trend, here? You conveniently ignored all this on your way to claiming: By the way the Jam Pack Sampler doesn’t come with any restrictions or agreements on it’s use. What part of Members Only do you not understand?
powermacguy has asked you to do the equivalent of stealing office supplies from your job because:
a) he’s too cheap to buy pens, pads and paperclips himself
and
b) he’s too lazy to get his own job and steal his own office supplies
Sounds like he’s taking advantage of you – playing you for a sucker. Just to put this in perspective.
Dude,
If you were a part of my “mens club” and I gave you $1000 with no restrictions, it’s yours to give to your sick mother if you wish, I have no claim after I give it away, it’s yours free and clear.
Apple gave the Sampler to “Members Only” with no restrictions, what they do with it afterwards is their buisness.
What’s the problem but the one that’s in your head?
powermacguy has asked you to do the equivalent of stealing office supplies from your job
That’s not a correct analogy.
A boss supplies a employee office supplies to be used to perfrom their work, the boss may be giving the supplies to the employee, but the boss still retains ownership over the supplies.
Apple is giving me a Jam Pack Sampler, free and clear of ownership and restrictions, to install on my personal machine for my or anyone’s use. Since it’s now MINE and Apple retains no ownership over it, I can then give it to whom I wish.
Static Mesh, if someone gave me $1,000 with no more restrictions than those Apple obviously placed on its members, I would certainly be free to use it to help my sick mother. If I do that, I would then not be able to use whatever I gave to my mother to pay for a night on the town, would I? No. Once I use it, it is no longer mine to use.
You, on the other hand, are giving that same thousand dollars to your, Mom, your sister, your main squeeze, and several other people who just happen to pass by and pick your pocket. And … you are keeping it for your own use. Sure, if you chose to pass your copy – not a copy of your copy, but your copy – to powermacguy, that might be a technical violation but would adhere to the spirit of the Members Only limitation. But, is that what you are doing? It doesn’t seem so. You have made your copy available to one and all and posted said availability on this site.
Apple retains ownership of the loops the same way an author retains ownership of the contents of a book. You can certainly sell/lend/give away the book you bought, but you cannot reprint it for those purposes.
I have to agree with Mr. DL… It’s lame that when something comes out for members.any exclusive group, some one posts it for the world. I mean, come on, if you were Apple, you would have made it a public download if you wanted the world to get it. This is how all the arguments for DRM, activation, etc. are justified by the corporations…
Static, I won’t be crying if Apple cuts off your ,mca account and bitch claps you for posting the link…, and I also won’t complain if someone rips off your lawn gnome because it was just sitting out front of your yard with no security and now written sign “Do not steal this”…
OK, my spelling sucks and my proof reading is atrocious. But you get the point…
that might be a technical violation but would adhere to the spirit of the Members Only limitation. But, is that what you are doing? It doesn’t seem so. You have made your copy available to one and all and posted said availability on this site.
Apple gave it to Members Only originally, but they gave no conditions or restrictions of it’s use afterwards. Try giving a large sum of money away to someone you know and see what happens. They go blow it on something you think is a waste but you know what? It’s not your money anymore you gave it away with no contract on it’s use.
Apple retains ownership of the loops the same way an author retains ownership of the contents of a book. You can certainly sell/lend/give away the book you bought, but you cannot reprint it for those purposes.
Sure Apple retains the copyright, but they gave the ownership to me free and with no restrictions which I’m giving it away free as well.
This is totally different from a artist who writes a book, spends tons of money on publishing it and someone makes a cheap copy and deprives him/her of their investment.
In this case it’s a sampler given away for free to a select group for promotional purposes, no person gets deprived if copies of it are given to non-members.
If Apple gave those restrictions that they didn’t want .Mac members to give copies of the Sampler to others then they would have made a licensing agreement to the effect.
BUT THERE IS NONE.
No conditions, no restrictions, nada, zip, nope none.
if you were Apple, you would have made it a public download if you wanted the world to get it.
No they would have implemented some sort of licensing/DRM protection/enforcement to protect the amount of copies in circulation.
Do you know Apple.com is one of the most highest visited websites on the internet?
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/requested.html
In order to do that would mean a large amount of the 95% of Windows losers are visiting Apple regulary.
Perhaps Apple couldn’t make it a free download for everyone because the Windows losers would suck up all the available bandwidth and the Mac users would get nothing.
This Jam Pack Sampler is quite large you know.
If Apple didnt want me to make a copy for others, all they had to do was include a agreement for it’s use.
Static Mesh, they told you you could have <u>A</u> copy. When you gave away your copy, you also kept it. And gave it away to all takers. Then you had the nerve to say This is totally different from a artist who writes a book, spends tons of money on publishing it and someone makes a cheap copy and deprives him/her of their investment.!
Please explain the difference … I’m not smart enough to see any.
On a much more important point: do you really want Apple to be protecting the stuff it has been providing .Mac users with as bonuses? Is that aggravation what you really want? I can provide the name of a shrink, if that’s your plan – ‘cuz you need some serious help! And, that’s the best you can expect when you take advantage of someone’s better nature – it sours. They could protect the work (Not A Good Thing) or simply stop passing it out (A Worse Thing). Then you’d likely complain that the service went down hill – as if you had nothing to do with it. What high school do you attend?
Hmmmmmmm….
I am a full fledged memeber of .mac and have not seen the software on my iDisk or been able to download the loops from the .mac website – for all of the blustering here – has anyone got a good answer on how to solve this one?
Today I am kind of pi$$ed at .mac services <- my MDN for the day.
Static Mesh, they told you you could have A copy.
No they didn’t say anything about having just one copy. In fact I just downloaded another copy from their servers just to prove it. In fact I copied the copy a few times too. To backup and to a dvd.
When you gave away your copy, you also kept it. And gave it away to all takers.
Dude this is not a piracy case, there is no restrictions on the files what so ever. I can copy it to my hearts content and do what I wish because it’s mine. Apple has placed no restrictions on the sample files. In fact they probally want it circulated among the Mac community and the best way to start that would among the diehard .Mac users.
Then you had the nerve to say This is totally different from a artist who writes a book, spends tons of money on publishing it and someone makes a cheap copy and deprives him/her of their investment.!
Please explain the difference … I’m not smart enough to see any.
Dude, this is a Jam Pack Sample., it’s just a portion of the complete Jam Pack for people to test out. Apple is giving it away free so it would interest people to buy the whole Jam Pack. The more the sample is circulated the more people will say “perhaps I should get the whole package” The full set is 4 boxes at $99 each.
Now if it was indeed the whole Jam Pack box that I was hosting that would be wrong, because it would be denying a investment return for Apple because they are trying to sell that product.
I’m not doing that. I’m just hosting the sample and doing Apple a favor by reaching Mac users who don’t have a .Mac account or some reason or another because obviously Apple can’t host the files for everyone for some reason. (most likely the hoards of Windows losers)
http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/jampacks/
Dude, I’m not going to respond to your second paragraph. Unless you got any valid points this discussion is closed in my eyes.