Bbc Sound Library
Dierdre Roussin
The Sound Library is supported by the Acoustic Atlas through a collaborative project with the Montana State University Library, which collects and curates field recordings of natural sounds in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Yellowstone's Sound Library is supported, in part, by Yellowstone Forever, and by a generous grant through the Eyes on Yellowstone program. Eyes on Yellowstone is made possible by Canon U.S.A., Inc. This program represents the largest corporate donation for wildlife conservation in the park.
When I open Logic on the Mojave install and try to point Logic at the already relocated sound files (so I don't have to spend the next 3 hours downloading them all again) I can not select the drive. It is greyed out with "Sound Library files exist here" as the status. I know they exist there, which is why I want Logic to use that location.
The same actually happens when sound library is moved using symbolic links. Once files are moved, the Sound Library Manager instantly stops recognizing them as "installed", although Logic itself is capable of loading instruments and Apple Loops. And the only thing that fixes it is downloading the library again (which is installed to external by overwriting the files that have been moved!)
I'm concerned that if I delete all the sounds on the external drive then allow Logic to download them all again (which completely defeats the purpose!) then my High Sierra install will start kicking out the same error.
I used that info and copied those receipts files listed (plus a few more, just check the file names for stuff that looks relevant) from High Sierra/System/Library/Receipts to Mojave/System/Library/Receipts and most of the "Installed" flags came back in the Sound Library Manager.
I had to downgrade my main Apple OS disk because of a graphics glitch and because of that I had to reinstall Logic. Logic keeps asking to download the audio content, but the audio content is already downloaded on a separate drive in the same machine. When I go to Relocate Sound Library it seems to see the library on HDData but it's greyed out and won't let me select it. Also when I select Sound Library Manager, it clearly can't "see" the sounds that are already on the other disk. What can I do about this except re-download the entire thing? See attached.
Alternatively, you could rename the library folder on the external drive (temporarily) to some other name. After downloading the "Essential Sounds" (or some other small) library, relocate it to the external HD. This creates all necessary symbolic links in macOS system folders, pointing to the library on external. After that delete the newly relocated Library folder and rename the existing (fully downloaded) folder back to "Library" (or whatever it's normally called). Can't guarantee it will work, though, since Logic apparently registers the sound library components as installed through installation receipts. You might have to combine these two methods.
Note: I personally find the Sound Library Manager a total mess. In my experience, it's never worked properly, and the way it treats users' time is outrageous. For example, it cannot detect previously installed library content (say, after it had been moved to an external drive and after macOS has been freshly reinstalled, like in the OP's case), although Logic itself can load samples and presets just fine. And to add insult to injury, the installation status is defined through installation receipts which are stored in a separate system folder. It's as if Logic and Sound Library Manager are two totally different apps developed by separate dev teams. Could SLM's development have been outsourced? I don't know, but whoever came up with SLM in its present shape and form should probably look for another career.
I downloaded the essential sounds and it still shows the existing sounds grayed out. Thank you for this link. I have these sounds installed on my studio machine and I should be able to get the receipts file from there. I'll try it and report back
As for the external drive being greyed out, have you renamed the folder on external to something other than "Library"? Logic's SLM obviously still detects that library files already exist on the drive. From my experience, once you rename that folder, the disk should become available for relocation. You might have to quit Logic, rename the folder, eject the disk and plug it in again, wait for it to mount, then launch Logic again.
David, yes it is quite obscure, so I can't agree more on that. Aren't you curious about how the Sound Library Manager works exactly, though? I'm still wondering how exactly it handles disk space when performing content download / installation
After re-naming "Library" I was able to get the application to move the essential sounds over to the Data Drive. Then I deleted the contents of the newly created "Library" folder and replaced it with the stuff that was in the renamed file. The Sound Library Manager still can't see the samples on the other drive, but I played around with it for a bit and opened Alchemy. Alchemy showed me a progress bar (see attached) which probably lasted less than a minute, then all the sounds were available in the program. Same with Drummer. So clearly it found them on the drive and didn't re-download all those massive files.
So I think it will grab what it needs when it needs it but at this point, you'd think it would update the Sound Library Manager, such that once it "knows" the sounds are there, it checks it off in SLM as already downloaded. I have the full library but I imagine this would be hell for someone who had meticulously downloaded only stuff they needed because of disk space or whatever.
I closed the file and re-opened it, just to see if it would re-open Alchemy again immediately or whether it would have to do that refresh. It didn't. Those sounds were right there in the plugin and still not checked off in the SLM.
OK so I did the receipts trick and at first I thought it didn't work. The SLM showed "Installed" next to (most of) the sounds in the library but on the left there were no indicators in the check boxes that it could see the files. I had to come into my studio and open Logic here to realize that there are no checks in the boxes by default.
Interesting side note - on all but one of my computers I'm running macos in a hackintosh (PC hardware) and somehow pasting all the Receipts from my studio machine (Apple keyboard, PC hardware) screwed up the keyboard settings on my laptop (Windows keyboard pretending to be an Apple keyboard). I'll have to figure out how to undo that.
I putted a 3th drive on it and moved the basic new library to there with logic as the 3th don't show grey but white. So according Logic thats where the sounds are. Then I deleted the logic file of disk 3 (the basic one) and copied the big library to there from disk 2. After that I deleted the big library from disk 2. So the big one is now on the 3th where according Logic your sounds are. After that you can open Logic and from there switch all back to disk 2 as it don't show this grey anymore.
Hey all, just wanted to chime in. I'm in the same boat: I have the full 60GB Library from the Application Support > Logic folder (meaning they were all installed previously), but when I go to paste them back to that location after an OS refresh, Logic doesn't see them.
What you can do though is when you first download the Logic samples -- and before you install them -- is find the pkg files on your hard drive and back those up. Then use a shell script to batch install all the pkg files. This is perhaps a cleaner way to go about it rather then disabling csrutil and implanting old receipts since it will install everything fresh again. It's essentially what the Sound Library Manager does, just without the headache of downloading 60GB from a slow server.
How to find and backup the pkg files: using Sound Library Manager, select the samples you want to download and start downloading them. After they've downloaded, macOS will prompt you to enter your password, but don't. Leave that dialogue box open and instead go into Finder and we'll find the pkg files that were just downloaded. From Finder hit CMD + Shift + G to open the "Go to the folder:" dialogue box and then type in "/private/var/folders/". You'll have to look through these subfolders since they are arbitrarily named until you find the folder path: com.apple.MusicApps > audiocontentdownload.apple.com > lp10_ms3_content_2016 (or 2013, etc). Then within here you will see the pkg files. There are other data files in here named .resumeData and.resumeDataMA, but you only need the pkg files (assuming the download has finished completely). Sort this finder window by kind to group all the pkg files together and then drag and drop them to your backup disk.
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