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Now that we've written the world's shortest song, let me tell you how you can share it. Now, by sharing, I mean letting other people enjoy your music, either through an iPod or on a CD or in some other way. So I'll go ahead and tell you how to get your song into iTunes. Now, first of all, we have these different tracks and what has to happen before we can even go to iTunes is that Garage Band has to then mix down these tracks into one track that's going to contain the stereo information for the left and right speakers. Fortunately, we don't have to do that. Garage Band will do that for us. So I'm going to save this song and then I'm going to go to share, send song to iTunes. And as you can also see, we can send this to iWeb or if we had a movie, we could send it to iDVD. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose send song to iTunes. But you'll also notice, once again, that I didn't mention a CD, so we can burn this to a CD, all from within Garage Band. So I'm going to send song to iTunes and then what happens at this point is we can choose a playlist for this song to live in when it goes to iTunes. So I'm going to leave it at Duane Ferguson's playlist and I'm the artist, although I should put a symbol like Prince, like an ampersand or something, and here's the composer, the album name, although I don't think anybody in the world will buy this album title. It's not cool enough. And then we can choose a compression scheme. We can choose between MP3 or AAC. Whenever you buy a song from the iTunes Music Store, you're going to find that it's encoded with the AAC compression scheme because it's a lot smaller than MP3 and the quality if very, very good. So you can choose either one of these. I'll put it on AAC and then I can also choose an audio setting for high quality, good quality and higher quality. Now, of course, what's going to happen is when you choose a different quality setting, you're going to see the changes down here and it's going to tell you exactly when you want to use these settings. For example, good quality is best suited for voice. So if you're going to do any type of audio book or that kind of thing, you might want to choose this setting. High quality is good for music of all types. And higher quality is going to give you a gigantic file size, but the sound is going to be great, like CD-quality. So I'm going to put it on high quality for now and I'm going to choose share. But if you don't want to do this over and over and over again, you'd be able to do this in the preferences, which I'll talk about in the full title of the iLife 08. So I'm going to hit share and then the song is being mixed down and converted into the AAC format with the compression scheme and everything that we set up in the share menu. Once this is done, by the way, iTunes will open for you and your song should, if everything goes according to plan, play for you. With your playlist and everything all converted into iTunes for you. So we'll give this a few more moments to mix this down and create a song for us. One thing you will notice, though, is when you're working with different media types, audio is going to be quite large, as well as video, as opposed to working with text files. So you have to be patient, especially if you have a very long song, if you plan to create a podcast or if you're composing a song for a short film that you created and you want to bring your song into iMovie. And, by the way, while we're waiting for this, the quality settings will affect how long the conversion process takes. So if you choose the highest setting, you can obviously expect to wait a little longer than you would if you put it on just the good setting. Ok. iTunes is going to open up and I'm going to extend this out a little bit here so we can see the entire interface and hopefully our song will start playing. And there it is. "Music" Here's my song by Duane Ferguson and here's my album. "Music" It's really a cool way to create your own music and put them on your iPod or your iPhone to share with everyone else.