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How awful that one has to go through all this hassle to read all your old sound files. Yes it is possible to convert all those old sounds, but what if I have hundreds of Mac sound files? What if MS Office uses system 7 sound files in its libraries..

Man this is one HUGE disadvantage to the Mac, not being able to actually BOOT into OS 9 on current macs.

With most Intel PC's you can load any version of Windows and BOOT back and forth, just encase you run into any compatability problems with XP/2003 and your old apps/files.
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JWolf6589 <jwolf6589@aol.comnospam> wrote:

Man this is one HUGE disadvantage to the Mac, not being able to actually BOOT into OS 9 on current macs.

Hmmm, the G4 I just ordered for $1295 boots into OS 9. Say, so do all
the G4s Apple is currently selling.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I just managed to play a .snd file while
booted in OS X, so as usual you're just manufacturing a reason to
criticize Apple.

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In article <1fxeu9m.1ipup381lz2p5yN%mike@POSTTOGROUP.invalid>, mike@POSTTOGROUP.invalid (Mike Rosenberg) writes:

JWolf6589 <jwolf6589@aol.comnospam> wrote:

Man this is one HUGE disadvantage to the Mac, not being able to actually BOOT
into OS 9 on current macs.

Hmmm, the G4 I just ordered for $1295 boots into OS 9. Say, so do all
the G4s Apple is currently selling.

Including the 17 inch G4 powerbook ?
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Larry Kilgallen <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote:

Hmmm, the G4 I just ordered for $1295 boots into OS 9. Say, so do all
the G4s Apple is currently selling.

Including the 17 inch G4 powerbook ?

I'm sorry, I should have specifically said Power Mac G4s, because I'm
just talking about the towers. I don't believe they've changed the
specs on any PowerBooks.

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On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 11:24:31 -0500, JWolf6589 wrote
(in message <20030702122431.17964.00000011@mb-m03.aol.com>):

<< Bullshit. It's simple to import 'em into iTunes, or to launch Classic and use
SoundApp or any of a large number of other such apps and batch-convert 'em. It takes literally _seconds_ to set up. Depending on how many snds you have it might take a while to _run_, but even so we're talking minutes at most. A few more seconds with a utility such as A Better Finder Rename, or even the command line in Terminal, and the new files all have .aiff extensions. I had 53 MB of snds, I converted 'em all in under 5 minutes. >>

So you saying the classic mode cannot run system 7 sounds without third party garbage?

No, twit. iTunes is an Apple app.

Listen you, I am asking as I may send a sound file to someone with
an
OSX machine, and all I want to know is if it will play without hassle. Apparantly OSX cannot read system 7 sounds without third party garbage.

Wrongo, nutcase. See above.

If
you
know anything about sound you'd know that sometimes when you convert an audio file the file gets messed up.

Gee. Never happened to any of the 53 MB of sound files I had. Could it be
that the troll did something wrong?

This does not happen often, but I have one
such
sound file that should not be converted.

Bye the way its Microsoft not Mickeysoft

'Tis Mickeysoft, oh troll.

<< As has been pointed out to you before, oh trolling idiot, it's perfectly possible to get a nice new G4 desktop which boots OS 9. In fact, right now, _all_ new G4 desktops boot OS 9. >>

Why is it that all new Macs can boot into OS 9?

Just the G4s, not the laptops.

I thought Apple was not
allowing this..

They've stopped making the newer Windtunnels, but still have some of the
older ones in stock, and are getting rid of those before they start selling G5s.

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JWolf6589 <jwolf6589@aol.comnospam> wrote:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021127060058937

How awful that one has to go through all this hassle to read all your old sound files. Yes it is possible to convert all those old sounds, but what
if I have hundreds of Mac sound files?

Geez, I just noticed that the very article you posted states clearly
that iTunes .snd files and can convert them. The article states that
"using them in OS X is easy," but you've decided that "easy" means "all
this hassle."

BTW, it's even easier than the article states, because there's no need
to make mp3 files first if your goal is AIFF, as you can convert fron
.snd to .aif directly.

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<< Geez, I just noticed that the very article you posted states clearly
that iTunes .snd files and can convert them. The article states that
"using them in OS X is easy," but you've decided that "easy" means "all
this hassle." >>


No but they cannot be open in the finder just by double clicking them.
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In article <20030703172720.24426.00000043@mb-m22.aol.com>, jwolf6589@aol.comnospam (JWolf6589) wrote:

<< Geez, I just noticed that the very article you posted states clearly
that iTunes .snd files and can convert them. The article states that
"using them in OS X is easy," but you've decided that "easy" means "all
this hassle." >>

No but they cannot be open in the finder just by double clicking them.

Give them a name ending in .snd. Pick one. Do a 'Get Info'
on it. Open the 'Open with' tab. Pick the application you
want them to open in. Click the button.


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<< Give them a name ending in .snd. Pick one. Do a 'Get Info'
on it. Open the 'Open with' tab. Pick the application you
want them to open in. Click the button. >>


Not as easy as in mac OS 7-9.x.

Pick a file do not add a .snd to it, and click the open menu item, and it plays.
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