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iTunes and AAC

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Cimulation

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Aug 4, 2004
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Hi,

I have lots of Random AAC Music files on my hard drive, and wish to import them to iTunes.
So i put them all onto my desktop, and tried to drag them to a newly created playlist. Usually when doing the same to mp3 files, the big green + sign appears on your cursor, and you can drag and drop them right into iTunes.

But i don't even get any of that, AAC files just refuse to import to iTunes.
And i know that they aren't protected AAC's or anything like that.
This applies to all my AAC files, not just a select few.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
cim,
 
Have you tried File > Add to Library?

This is the best way of importing music files into iTunes, and will also keep your iTunes Music folder organised.
 
Thank you for the suggestion, but unfortunately this dosen't work, for some reason iTunes just dosen't want to import AAC any way i try.

Does this happen to you? Or can you just drag and drop a file from your desktop onto a playlist and it imports?
 
I've just tried to replicate your problem. Yes, I'm normally able to drag and drop into iTunes, but the green + sign disappears if I uncheck 'Copy files to iTunes music folder when adding to library' in Preferences > Advanced. Check that box and see whether it solves the problem.

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Thank you both, i did uncheck the box, and tried numerous other things, but to no avail.
And i do have the latest qtime.
I think that my system is just really stuffed.
I'm going to re-install, since a lot of things like this are happening recently.
And hopefully it should all work as planned then.

But thank you for you time and effort.
cim,
 
Cimulation said:
Thank you both, i did uncheck the box, and tried numerous other things, but to no avail.
And i do have the latest qtime.
I think that my system is just really stuffed.
I'm going to re-install, since a lot of things like this are happening recently.
And hopefully it should all work as planned then.

But thank you for you time and effort.
cim,
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Before you re-install, have you tried running Repair Disk Permissions and the cron jobs (sudo periodic daily, sudo periodic weekly, sudo periodic monthly)?
 
No haven't tried them, but am off to do that now.
But somehow i don't think that will fix it, but worth a shot.
Anyway,thank you for the help.
And will make sure i let you know how it turns out.

cim,
 
Cimulation said:
Thank you both, i did uncheck the box, and tried numerous other things, but to no avail.
And i do have the latest qtime.
I think that my system is just really stuffed.
I'm going to re-install, since a lot of things like this are happening recently.
And hopefully it should all work as planned then.

But thank you for you time and effort.
cim,
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I wonder if those files are MPEG-2 AAC (with an .aac extension, which iTunes doesn't understand) as opposed to MPEG-4 AAC (with an .m4a extension, which iTunes does understand).
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
I wonder if those files are MPEG-2 AAC (with an .aac extension, which iTunes doesn't understand) as opposed to MPEG-4 AAC (with an .m4a extension, which iTunes does understand).
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Take a look at this web site.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Was that link meant for me, or the original poster?
Click to expand...

I'm not quite sure, but thanks anyway, i did a bit of reading up about stuff there.

The files do have an aac extension, but they also have an itunes icon.

Thanks again to all.
But, Like i said, i think i'm going to re-install.

On that note, any ways you guys know of to preserve settings and preffs and other such things when upgrading from 10.2 to 10.3?
 
No, believe me, i've just tried importing them anywhere and every which way.
I'm just going to re-install the OS.
Any pointers?
 
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