ac

ac is a command line utlity to help with the download of GarageBand and Logic Pro audio content files.

Motivation

With ac you can easily manage Apple audio content across a fleet of Macs. Allowing you to easily download audio content to meet the needs of a given system or fleet. With ac you can get just the content you need and build repeatable deployments utilizing MDM or shell scripts!

Installation

Download the available binaries from the releases. If you don't see a build for your system. Try using the go install option.

Install via go install

go install github.com/w0/ac@latest

Quick Start

Download all the mandatory audio content files.

ac download -p ~/Path/To/logicpro1100.plist -m

Usage

View available commands and built in help

ac -h

All commands require access to the bundled audio content plist. You can typically find this inside of the app bundle for GarageBand or Logic Pro. Specify it with the -p flag.

ac <command> -p /Path/To/Audio/Content/Plist

list

You can use ac to list out available pkg files that are mandatory or optional. This is pretty verbose and is best parse with utilities like grep or awk.

If you don't specify a filter flag all pkgs will be printed. You can also filter

ac list -p /path/to/plist.plist -m # List only the mandatory pkg files
ac list -p /path/to/plist.plist -o # List only the optional pkg files

ac is also able to print the filtered pkg info in the json format

ac list -p /path/to/plist.plist -m -j

download

You can use the same filtering flags with list when downloading audio content pkgs.

Download a single pkg by name and save it to the desktop.

ac download -p /path/to/plist.plist -d ~/Desktop -n "GarageBand11BaseContentPackage"`
ac download -p /path/to/plist.plist -d ~/Desktop -i "com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_GarageBand6Legacy"

Download multiple pkgs and save them to the current working directory.

ac download -p /path/to/plist.plist -n "GarageBand11BaseContentPackage" -n "GarageBand11ExtraContentPackage"

install

ac can attempt to install the downloaded content packages for you. You must run ac as root for this.

ac install -p /path/to/plist.plist -m

🤝 Contributing

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/w0/ac.git
cd ac

Build a release

go build

Run tests

go test ./audiocontent

Submit a pull request

If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and open a pull request.