iTunes 10.7.x on Sorbet Leopard?

[mac57mac57]

Folks, believe it or not, I still use iPods connected to my home stereo as the source of most of the music we play around the house. I have three iPods: two 5th generation iPod Video 30G units, and one of the final generation 160 GB iPod Classic.

For quite some time, I have been syncing the two older iPod 30G units to my PowerMac G5 DP 2.3 GHz Sorbet Leopard system, running iTunes 10.6.3 and for no particularly good reason, the 160 GB iPod Classic to my Mac Studio. Today, I decided to harmonize things, and sync all three of them to the G5.

FAILURE! iTunes 10.6.3 informs me that I need iTunes 10.7.x or better to support the iPod Classic. 10.6.3 is, as far as I know, the last version that will run under (Sorbet) Leopard.

I am wondering if iTunes 10.7.x from Snow Leopard PPC might be able to run under (Sorbet) Leopard. Has anyone tried this? Is there a known reason why it wouldn't work?

 

[Doq]

iTunes 10.7 and later versions are only built for Intel and Snow Leopard or later.

You could try it though. Report back if there's anything different.

 

[mac57mac57]

Indeed. However, I don't have Snow Leopard PPC installed anywhere, so it is tougher for me to test at all. Hence my question. I will look into it and get back to y'all.

 

[Doq]

Okay, so that I don't look like a total fool I dropped the current 10.6.8 image onto the Companion (replacing the 10A96 that resided before*) and took a quick look.

The 10.6.8 image packs iTunes 10.6.3 inside. There is no 10.7.

* I did quickly look at the iTunes on 10A96 and it's only version 8.6 or so, so not even useful for your purposes. But it doesn't launch anyway, throwing a "wrong architecture" error. Interestingly, this error does not mention Intel at all and Get Info shows the app as Universal. I wonder if it only runs on G5s... outside the scope of this thread though.

 

[mac57mac57]

Wow @Doq , thanks for going the extra mile... I guess I won't try to dig iTunes out of a Snow Leopard PPC load after all!