This utility can download all the essential content required by GarageBand, Logic Pro X, and MainStage, as well as optional content that is available for the same apps.
You are responsible for being appropriately licensed for any/all content downloaded with this tool.
- Install packages
- Import packages into your package deployment system
- Download content for older versions of GarageBand, Logic Pro X, and MainStage.
macOS with the system standard python and an active Internet connection.
The current version of GarageBand (10.1.5 as at 2017-01-19) does the following:
- Downloads 33 'essential' packages (~1.87GB) for basic functionality
- Prompts to download 359 optional packages (~26.49GB) for extended functionality
The current version of Logic Pro X (10.3.0 as at 2017-01-19):
- Requires 33 packages of 'essential' content (~1.96GB) for basic functionality
- Has 567 optional packages (~43.73GB)
The current version of MainStage 3 (3.2.4 as at 2016-11-23):
- Requires 35 packages of 'essential' content (~1.68GB) for basic functionality
- Has 547 optional packages (~43.31GB)
All three apps do have a number of packages that are shared in common, both in the essential package sets, and optional package sets.
git clone https://github.com/carlashley/appleLoops./appleLoops.py --helpfor usage
./appleLoops.py --helpshow all options./appleLoops.pywill download all GarageBand content (optional and mandatory)./appleLoops.py --dry-run --package-set garageband --optional-onlywill do a dry run for all GarageBand optional content./appleLoops.py --package-set garageband--mandatory-onlywill download all essential GarageBand content./appleLoops.py --package-set logicpro --mandatory-onlywill download all essential Logic Pro X content./appleLoops.py --package-set mainstage --cache-server http://cache_server:port --destination ~/Desktop/loopswill download all MainStage content through the specified caching server, and store packages in the~/Desktop/loopsfolder./.appleLoops.py --file garageband1012.plistwill download all packages found in thegarageband1012.plistfile bundled with several versions of GarageBand.
Untested - if there are issues with using this to download the content whilst behind a proxy, try downloading outside of the content, or if you can contribute some code to improve that behaviour, please feel free to create a pull request.
Packages will be saved into the /tmp/appleLoops folder by default, unless the -d, --destination <folder> flag and argument is provided.
To ensure that content is readily identifiable, it is stored in a folder within the /tmp/appleLoops depending on the plist file it was processed from, year, and whether it was mandatory or not.
[jcitizen@computer]:mandatory # pwd
/tmp/appleLoops/garageband1012/2016/mandatory
[jcitizen@computer]:mandatory # ls -lha
total 4118408
drwxr-xr-x 37 jcitizen wheel 1.2K 3 Feb 18:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 jcitizen wheel 136B 3 Feb 17:55 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 11M 3 Feb 18:15 MAContent10_AssetPack_0048_AlchemyPadsDigitalHolyGhost.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 19M 3 Feb 18:18 MAContent10_AssetPack_0310_UB_DrumMachineDesignerGB.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 26M 3 Feb 18:19 MAContent10_AssetPack_0312_UB_UltrabeatKitsGBLogic.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 153M 3 Feb 18:06 MAContent10_AssetPack_0314_AppleLoopsHipHop1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 40M 3 Feb 17:57 MAContent10_AssetPack_0315_AppleLoopsElectroHouse1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 7.1M 3 Feb 18:01 MAContent10_AssetPack_0316_AppleLoopsDubstep1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 17M 3 Feb 18:06 MAContent10_AssetPack_0317_AppleLoopsModernRnB1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 36M 3 Feb 18:15 MAContent10_AssetPack_0320_AppleLoopsChillwave1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 16M 3 Feb 18:08 MAContent10_AssetPack_0321_AppleLoopsIndieDisco.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 16M 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0322_AppleLoopsDiscoFunk1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 33M 3 Feb 18:16 MAContent10_AssetPack_0323_AppleLoopsVintageBreaks.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 31M 3 Feb 18:14 MAContent10_AssetPack_0324_AppleLoopsBluesGarage.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 21M 3 Feb 18:16 MAContent10_AssetPack_0325_AppleLoopsGarageBand1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 139M 3 Feb 18:11 MAContent10_AssetPack_0354_EXS_PianoSteinway.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 16M 3 Feb 17:57 MAContent10_AssetPack_0357_EXS_BassAcousticUprightJazz.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 35M 3 Feb 18:19 MAContent10_AssetPack_0358_EXS_BassElectricFingerStyle.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 29M 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0371_EXS_GuitarsAcoustic.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 30M 3 Feb 18:19 MAContent10_AssetPack_0375_EXS_GuitarsVintageStrat.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 22M 3 Feb 18:16 MAContent10_AssetPack_0482_EXS_OrchWoodwindAltoSax.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 28M 3 Feb 18:00 MAContent10_AssetPack_0484_EXS_OrchWoodwindClarinetSolo.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 26M 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0487_EXS_OrchWoodwindFluteSolo.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 186M 3 Feb 18:04 MAContent10_AssetPack_0491_EXS_OrchBrass.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 48M 3 Feb 18:06 MAContent10_AssetPack_0509_EXS_StringsEnsemble.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 18M 3 Feb 18:16 MAContent10_AssetPack_0536_DrummerClapsCowbell.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 11M 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0537_DrummerShaker.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 804K 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0538_DrummerSticks.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 20M 3 Feb 18:06 MAContent10_AssetPack_0539_DrummerTambourine.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 108K 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0540_PlugInSettingsGB.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 312K 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0541_PlugInSettingsGBLogic.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 20M 3 Feb 18:10 MAContent10_AssetPack_0554_AppleLoopsDiscoFunk2.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 217M 3 Feb 17:58 MAContent10_AssetPack_0560_LTPBasicPiano1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 241M 3 Feb 18:03 MAContent10_AssetPack_0593_DrummerSoCalGBLogic.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 15M 3 Feb 17:56 MAContent10_AssetPack_0597_LTPChordTrainer.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 275M 3 Feb 18:09 MAContent10_AssetPack_0598_LTPBasicGuitar1.pkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcitizen wheel 212M 3 Feb 18:01 MAContent10_AssetPack_0599_GBLogicAlchemyEssentials.pkg
[jcitizen@computer]:mandatory #
Where a package from one app is used in another app, if a local copy already exists in other folders, copy that into the new location instead of downloading it again.
This only checks the default /tmp/appleLoops path or the specified path supplied with the -d or --destination-path arguments.
Where possible, downloads are resumed (incomplete files are over-written).
Tested behaviour indicates if a local copy already exists, and the new file doesn't or only partially exists, the utility will copy the existing file into the new location, and continue processing remaining files.
This could potentialy leave some files corrupted.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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Elements of FoundationPlist.py from munki are used in this tool.
https://github.com/munki/munki