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Posted by: greystash on 2018-01-14 22:28:47
Hello,
After becoming increasingly frustrated with OSX I've revived my iMac G4 and set it up with OS 9.2.2.
I mostly want to use the system for playing music from my network drive, I have it connected to an 8TB NAS drive with all my music on it. The problem is that all of my music is in the Apple Lossless format (m4a) and I can't find any music players that will recognise these files.
Are there any music players that will play m4a files on OS9 or is there a better lossless format that OS9/iTunes 2.0.4 or other players can recognise? I would rather not convert all of my music to AIFF format as that tends to lose metadata and the files are much larger.
Any ideas out there?
thanks!
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Posted by: Daniël on 2018-01-16 00:20:00
I think that for all lossless compressed audio formats, you're going to need OS X. Lossless didn't really started getting traction until well after OS 9 was declared dead by Steve Jobs himself. I'd install OS X 10.4 or 10.5 and then an audio application like VLC or the most recent version of iTunes (not sure if PPC iTunes can do lossless, the last version for Leopard probably should).
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2018-01-16 04:45:53
Consider some version of Linux or BSD?
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Posted by: greystash on 2018-01-17 02:45:49
Bugger that's a shame, I guess I'll stick with OSX then. Thanks for your replies!
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