Garageband Loops

[ataylor2211]

Hello,

 

we have a suite of macs that we manage with Mosyle and we deploy Garageband from our MDM using licenses aquired from ASM. However I am looking for a way to deploy all mandatory and option loop packs and was just wondering if anyone has sucessfully found a way to deploy the loops rather than install them all manually.

 

Thanks

Andy

[3s-gtech]

This'd be fun to know - I have a suite or two to reimage this summer and I'm not looking forward to this bit...

[DalekSec]

Not found an auto way, but the best way to save bandwidth/time is to setup a Mac as a caching server. Did this with logic back in day when we had a 100mb line. Left it downloading the 60GB over night and cached it. Rest of the macs were done in less than an hour!

[Cw2k]

https://github.com/carlashley/loopdown

[georgeescott]

There's a little-known official Apple script that does this for Garageband and Logic Pro called "loops.sh".

 

It's not publicly available though because it's still in Beta. You have to contact Apple to be added to a list for access.

 

I first discovered it last year on the MacAdmins Slack (https://app.slack.com/client/T04QVKUQG/C6G6GLHB7).

 

I contacted Aaron Davis, a Sr. System Engineer at Apple ([email protected]) to sign up for access to the script as I found his email in a post in the MacAdmins Slack about it.

 

We have it deployed to all our Macs that need the GarageBand or Logic Pro sounds. It works about 95% of the time but saves so much time!

 

I have added loops.sh as a Jamf script, then have a Jamf policy that runs the script with the required parameters.

 

E.g. to install all GarageBand Loops, I pass the following parameters:

-d garageband-all -i

Edited January 16, 2024 by georgeescott

[ataylor2211]

This is exactly what I am looking for, I'll drop Aaron Davis an email to get the script, thanks for this