Apple music store |
May, 01, 2003 7:37 PM |
rsouder4 |
Has anyone tried the Apple music store with old world hardware? It all works for me (including playing the previews) except for authorizing purchased music. Apple is trying to help, but so far has not solved my problem. Needles to say, I didn't mention to them that I'm running a souped up 7500 :-) . |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 05, 2003 6:48 AM |
rsouder4 |
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Actually, running iTunes as root and authorizing the computer from there fixed the problem (even as logged in as myself instead of root). I had tried fixing the permissions many times as that is where Apple tech. support was mainly pointing me.... and yes, I've tried re-installing both quicktime an iTunes along with deleting their preference files. Now that the computer is authorized, I am able to buy and play new music without a problem without being logged in as root. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 05, 2003 4:05 AM |
tempest |
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Well, I wouldn't run iTunes as root all the time since if your problems go away while running the app as root, it means something is wrong at a lower level. I think you should try repairing permissions and see if that helps. If not, try reinstalling iTunes. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 05, 2003 12:07 AM |
rsouder4 |
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Good call tempest I tried again logged in as root and ..... problem solved! Thanks everyone for the advice. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 04, 2003 7:14 PM |
kbata |
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I tried streaming from a B&W G3 to an 8500 with no problems. It asked to authorize the 8500 and all worked OK. Can you play the song using Quicktime? |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 04, 2003 1:14 AM |
tempest |
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Well, I get no such dialog when I try to play purchased music from iTunes 4. Maybe your configuration is causing problems? SWAG: Perhaps your AAC files are stored on an IDE drive? My configuration is all SCSI. But it may be perhaps permissions is involved. Run iTunes as root and see if that helps. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 03, 2003 4:24 PM |
jpanch |
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I have an 8600/200 with a sonnet G3/500 an ATA 133 SIIG card with a 40Gb hard drive running OS 10.2.5 with an external Yamaha SCSI CRW6416S CD/RW. There are two other SCSI drives on the original bus. I also have a firewire card from OWC which I paid $15 for through tehir mailist special. So anyway to get to the point I upgraded to Itunes 4, Quicktime 6.2 and have a .mac account from before. I also uploaded theipod 1.3 updater so that I could play the AAC format on the ipod. Well so far there is nothing that I can't do in Itunes 4. I bought an album, wrote it to an audio CD,uploaded the music to my older 5Gb ipod and played AAC format on the Ipod. I can use this older mac for the latest that apple has to offer in terms of music and that is just great. Thanks again Ryan. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 03, 2003 12:47 PM |
rsouder4 |
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Yea, iTunes seems to work fine for everything else. I hadn't tried anything other than the music store with the AAC file format so I ripped a cd in it. That too, worked fine. Apple tech support has twice pointed me to an article that suggested repairing permissions. That doensn't help either. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 03, 2003 11:57 AM |
OSXGuru |
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I suppose it's an obvious question, but I assume that iTunes 4 is otherwise working for you (that is, you can play MP3's etc.) Just as a test, you might try ripping a CD with the new AAC format, just to make sure that works. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 03, 2003 11:50 AM |
rsouder4 |
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One other thing. One of my early theories was that it was using my MAC address to authorize... so I removed my router from the picture. Still no luck when connected from cable modem to factory ethernet port. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 03, 2003 11:46 AM |
rsouder4 |
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Well, I guess rdemby's post rules the idea that no unsupported hardware can work. Anyhow..... To clarify, when I try to play purchased music (on the same old world 7500 they were purchased with), I get the authorization dialog box. Upon entering my info, the apple store is contacted and Itunes sort of acts like it is playing the song (I get the little speaker icon to the left of the song in the iTunes window).... but nothing happens. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 02, 2003 7:14 PM |
tempest |
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I thought the original problem was authorization. Since I only have 1 Macintosh running OS X, I'm unable to test the authorization process. However, I purchased 15 songs and I have no issues other than running into a panic while playing back a track and doing something within iMovie. Could have been unrelated. Panics are few and far between so it's probably a fluke. No problems with browsing. How exactly are you doing that's causing problems with authorization? You _are_ trying to play an m4p file within iTunes on a Mac other than the one that originally purchased the song, or are you doing something different? |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 02, 2003 6:27 PM |
jonz |
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Anyone else having trouble using the Browse function at the Music Store ? Keep getting the message: "We could not complete your Music Store request (500). There was an error in the Music Store etc etc..." Or is it because I am in New Zealand, and the browse facility is somehow linked to the purchasing non-availability outside of the good ol' US of A ? |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 02, 2003 6:11 PM |
powderhaus |
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I think that the numbering started with the beige G3s. I remember an extention that could fake these numbers and before i knew much about OS9 i tried to install 9.2 on my Umax J700, but when it restarts it sees i don't have a supported mac because the extention had not loaded yet. I have not tried to buy anything from the store yet, because there is not music that i want right now. But if something comes out i will give it a shot. There is also a DRM incorperated into iTunes, iPod, and the new AAC audio files. It only prevents you from burning the same playlist more than 10 times from what i have heard. You may want to go find out more about it to make sure you are not doing anything it does not like. I am sure that apple has the specifics posted somewhere. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 02, 2003 4:39 PM |
OSXGuru |
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Alas, as a Canadian I am not yet able to access the wonders of the Apple Music Store. (And I do mean wonders--it does look pretty impressive). I take it that you are able to purchase the music and download it, but when you try to play it there is some difficulty in convincing iTunes that you are authorized to do so? If so, the difficulty is that Apple hasn't said very much (that I've seen, anyway) about exactly how the authorization mechanism works. It seems reasonably likely that it does use your Ethernet MAC address in some way as a "key." Is there anything unusual about your ethernet setup? Do you have an ethernet card installed, for instance? |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 02, 2003 7:06 AM |
rdemby |
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I'm using a 7300/G4-400 Sonnet 10.2.5 . Purchased a CD and 4 songs yesterday. No problems whatsoever. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 02, 2003 5:10 AM |
nick.ashton |
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Sorry, ignore my previous question about your machine type - you actually said it was a 7500. So bang goes the theory that the problem might be restricted to clones. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 02, 2003 5:07 AM |
nick.ashton |
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I think the problem may be that new Macs have a unique serial number stored in their on-board ROM and I suspect this is what is used when you authorize a machine to be able to access downloaded music. On an old world machine there is no stored serial number so the authorization cannot complete. Although I'm not sure when this feature was first introduced - I can't remember if beige G3's have a serial number stored internally. It may be that Apple have written an algorithm for obtaining a unique identity for any supported machine e.g. using the MAC address of the built-in Ethernet interface for instance. Obviously this sort of algorithm will have problems when presented with non-supported hardware. What type of machine do you have - we may find that some old world machines do work and others (particularly clones) don't. I'd love to try it out on my 8600 but since I'm outside the US/Canada I can't purchase anything from the music store yet. Hopefully Apple will internationalize things soon. |
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RE: Apple music store |
May, 01, 2003 11:49 PM |
marcush |
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I just finished poking around in it. Everything I tried worked. I didn't buy anything so I can't attest to it completely. |
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