Logic extra content

[tdenton]

Afternoon All 

For those in education sector, how are people dealing with deploying the extra content for Logic sound loops etc.
Packaging it unsurprisingly a none starter due to size. 68GB is way to big.

Are there any good script out there? Looking around have only come accross loopdown   https://github.com/carlashley/loopdown but loooks like thats been no longer developed.

Just wondered if anyone had experience of this and has any tips/tricks to share.

Thanks

[McAwesome]

Talk with your Apple SE.  They have a script that handles the extra downloads for Logic and Garageband.

[tdenton]

@McAwesome Apple SE ?? you mean like account manager for education, we really struggled to link up with these in the past.

[shannon_pasto]

loopdown still works...well at least it worked earlier this year

I also wrote my own solution. Happy to share if you're interested

[shannon_pasto]

I just posted my script on GitHub

https://github.com/shannonpasto/AppleLoops

[tdenton]

It seems to have installed some is there anyway for it do everything.

[shannon_pasto]

Did you launch the app before you installed the loops? I've noticed that if you do the app doesn't pick up the loops. 

Also, check the policy log or script output if you ran it via terminal. That will tell you what packages were installed

[tdenton]

just run another test this morning without the app open still says there extra content to download. doesnt seem to be picking up all content.

No errors in the script output to suggust some kind of issue

[shannon_pasto]

I've just tested with logicpro1081 and all 877 packages installed (this is a physical pkg count and the count from the plist) which, according to Logic Pro is 31462 items. I am using v10.8.1 though as 11.1.1 is taking too long to download. If I get it installed I'll try again

[shannon_pasto]

Ok. Tested with v11.1.1 (logicpro1110) and all loops installed. 32061 items.

Are you sure you are using the right logicpro plist for your version of Logic Pro?

[tdenton]

I think its app identifier which goes in parameter 4 where Im going wrong.

There a plist inside app bundle (Contents/Resources) called logicpro1110.plist which is for 11.1.

Think I have been using the wrong one just re testing.

[shannon_pasto]

Correct, use the plist that corresponds to the version of Logic Pro you have installed which is inside the app bundle (/Applications/Logic Pro.app/Conents/Resrouces). In Jamf, parameter 4 would then be logicpro1110 for v11.1.1

[tdenton]

My test has just finished and seems to be working fine, all showing as installed. I checked it under another account and it did prompt to download, If you skip this and check sound library manager it shows everything was installed.

It does'nt appear if you launch the app again, this seems like more of indexing issues between accounts. I came accross this https://yearofthegeek.net/posts/install-logic-pro-with-all-audio-indexed-using-casper-suite/

It quite old but was going to give it a go. Is this something you seen in multi user enviroments

[tdenton]

perfect many thanks @shannon_pasto will do some testing thanks again