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I only have a pc. I used to have a mac but after my house got burgled I didn't. But my pc has both Windows XP and Linux on it so I am open to a solution which uses either os. The files are on an external hard drive which is why I still have them

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This will depend a bit on exactly what is in the files. They may be just audio, but they may have midi bits and pieces in there as well.

In your .band file, you should have a media subfolder, and the audio tracks should be in there (as .aiff files if I recall). Any audio app should let you import them and let you save as wav, mp3 or whatever. I'd use Audacity - full featured, free, multi platform...

If you have non-audio pieces in there, like midi data etc., your only option is to find a Mac and run Garageband on it - then you can export in whatever format you like.

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  • Darn. I have this .band file I want to export as MIDI or XML but don't even have a Mac. I do have an iPhone and Windows computer. Can I import .band files to my iPhone instead?
    – The Harmonic Rainbow
    Commented Jul 26, 2018 at 0:25
  • I just sent a .band file from iPad to Linux and was able to natively open the archive, and in the Media folder there were the 3 track wavs, separately. I didn't need the metadata
    – sehe
    Commented Aug 31, 2023 at 1:04