https://ask.metafilter.com/ The past 24 hours of questions at Ask MetaFilter Wed, 20 May 2026 21:17:24 GMT Wed, 20 May 2026 21:17:24 GMT en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 about huffing petrol has me wondering about the substance of my own teen-aged experiences. Marketed as 'Worm Capsules' at that time (1969), the product appears to have disappeared shortly thereafter (but you can find scans of its packaging online). Did it work? Seems so rude to me, introducing such a harsh solvent into a mammal's digestive system. And - what KIND of worms was it for - roundworms? Screw-worms!??

These capsules were similar to Vitamin E, but red, not orange. Ovoid, translucent blobs containing a clear fluid, which we'd harvest by slicing open the capsules with a razor blade. Years later I was stunned, encountering that same smell when walking past a dry cleaners.

Was it effective? Were side-effects known about, observed in the animals? Did some event precipitate its market removal?]]> https://ask.metafilter.com/389774/What-WAS-that-stuff-TetrachloroethyleneFilter tag:ask.metafilter.com,2026:site.389774 Wed, 20 May 2026 21:17:24 GMT Rash dryCleaning substanceAbuse veterinarianScience https://ask.metafilter.com/389774/What-WAS-that-stuff-TetrachloroethyleneFilter/rss the price of being part of community is inconvenience" is something I want to embrace. The problem is that it's very rare for anyone to ask me for anything, inconvenient or otherwise. How do I change this?

Most of my friends have partners and families and siblings and kids and BFFs, or they pay professionals when they need help. As a single, introverted person, without significant financial means, I have had to become comfortable reaching out and relying on my friends in times of crisis or when I just need an extra set of hands to help with a task. They always show up when I need them. I want to reciprocate; I am capable of helping with things, I have useful skills, I have some resources.

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I've made a bunch of videos of me singing and playing the guitar, using the video camera within iMovie on my iPad Pro (original; pretty old iPad)----no problem. But now I want to do the following:

I want to record some accompanying tracks in GarageBand on the same iPad (e.g. fake drums, a little piano, whatever), and then I want to import those into my movie project in iMovie on the same iPad.

But I'm not able to do that!! Why not?

Here's what I'm doing: once I have recorded a track in GB, I go back to my movie in iMovie. I do all the things you can do to import media into your movie: I can't remember every possible thing, but, you know, there are categories like "My Music" (I think that's music I bought (?)), Soundtrack (maybe Apple's canned music), and a promising category called "Files." "YES!" I think, Files sounds great! My GB track is probably a FILE somewhere!

(oh, let me first say that my track is nowhere in those other categories I said above -- of COURSE it's not)

So, I go to my Files, and there are lots and lots of FILES there! Files "On My iPAd," files "In the Cloud," music files, documents, photos! But when I look at the left-hand menu in FILES, and tap on "On my iPad" -- I usually can't find it anywhere...

BUT, WAIT!

SOMETIMES I CAN find a GB file I want, BUT IT IS GRAYED OUT so I can't tap on it and import it. So that is a basic question --- WHY ARE SO MANY FILES GRAYED OUT when I am in iMovie? Now you're thinking, "Duh! they're grayed out because they are not files of types that can be imported to iMovie, of course!" yet --- why the H*ll IS that? some of them are music files ---

Is it possible that a recording of a virtual instrument made in GB is not of a type that iMovie will accept???

OR, am I doing something wrong in some other way?

What I want to know is: what is a way I can get a track I recorded in GB into my movie in iMovie?? or can't I?

thank you for any info on this you can provide!

OH WAIT -- if, in fact, I CAN'T import GB files into iMovie, I would LOVE some suggestions for what I CAN do with my GB tracks to CONVERT them into some kind of files that my iMovie movies WILL accept. So, for example, I could EMAIL the GB track to myself, download it on my PC, and do ***whatever*** I have to do to convert it to something iMovie will like, and then get it back onto the iPad and into iMovie. I have some skills like that!!! I am just FLUMMOXED by this particular issue.

THANKS!!]]> https://ask.metafilter.com/389770/How-do-I-import-audio-files-from-GB-for-iOS-to-iMovie-for-iOS tag:ask.metafilter.com,2026:site.389770 Wed, 20 May 2026 00:07:03 GMT DMelanogaster computers movies music https://ask.metafilter.com/389770/How-do-I-import-audio-files-from-GB-for-iOS-to-iMovie-for-iOS/rss