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sev7en
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Well, just to report:

 

None of the hacks/tips/tricks in this thread helped and I went back to iTunes 6.0.5. The issue with that was the iTunes Library created by iTunes 7 wasn't backwards compatible with 6.0.5, so it wouldn't install. I downloaded the 6.0.5 dmg from the link in the post above this one, it wouldn't install because "There is nothing to install."

 

Opened the .mpkg, went into Contents/Resources, executed the iTunesX.pkg, then went into my Music/iTunes folder and deleted the iTunes Library file and all is right with my OSX installation once again.

 

Kinda sad that I can't watch TV previews or movie trailers off iTunes, but I guess I can still get to them from the web. Oh well, I'll keep checking in the hopes that someone resolves this issue.

 

bb

Great :) it works! Thanks I just restored the old version :)

 

P.s: It doesn't recognize my ipod...

Afraydo
Afraydo
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I give up, after spending an hour installing my graphics card I am sad to report that iTunes 7.0.1 still does not work. I get the same exact memory error, and cover flow does work (actually rather fast). This sucks! On the bright side I have QE/CI working...

department27
department27
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I give up, after spending an hour installing my graphics card I am sad to report that iTunes 7.0.1 still does not work. I get the same exact memory error, and cover flow does work (actually rather fast). This sucks! On the bright side I have QE/CI working...

 

Did you use the manual borisbadenov method, or use the pkg. I think the pkg, intstalls some frameworks, not sure not exactly.

anitanium
anitanium
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Since this thread is getting really long... I just thought I would attempt to summarize what's comtained (sorry if I miss anything..)

 

It appears that if you have an SSE3 cpu, intel or AMD most reports are that everything is A-O.K. QT 7.1.3 may or may not be required, there may be some problems viewing album covers, probably steming from QE/CI issues. But at least you can launch the app, play music, etc. And at least you know you ought to be able to upgrade without borking your system..

 

SSE2 guys... Well we're forked. The trick to making this work (it worked for me) is to make the app PPC only..

 

cd /Applications

ditto -arch ppc iTunes.app iTunesPPC.app

 

Then in finder, go to applications, rename iTunes.app to iTunesUniversal.app (or something) and rename iTunesPPC.app to iTunes.app. After that, right click on iTunes.app and Show Package Contents. Double click on Contents and open Info.plist with any decent text editor. Down towards the bottom you should see this key..

 

<key>LSRequiresNativeExecution</key>

<true/>

 

Change the <true/> to <false/>, and save the file.

 

That SHOULD HOPEFULLY work.. The weird thing for me, was that it didn't work at first, but I didn't reboot, or do anything else, and then a few minutes after these changes accidentally clicked on iTunes in the dock and it launched. Don't ask me... I did try downloading and running the zip files posted on page 6 (i think) during the time between it not working and suddenly working, but that app didn't work for me...

 

For me it's working now on an SSE2 Intel CPU, 768M of Ram, 10.4.6, QT 7.0.4.. Rosetta seems to make it slower (obviously), and the interface isn't exactly mind-blowing.. So if you have an SSE2 system, I probably wouldn't upgrade until there's a patch to allow it to run native. SSE3 guys should be OK but might want to re-read the thread for issues (i didn't pay as much attention to the SSE3 posts, blah to you guys!! :whistle:

 

Good Luck!!

~Steve

 

EDIT: Just thought I'd let you icon guys know that with these steps my icon ceased being f-ed up with the no-smoking circle around it.

 

P.S. Now, can anyone help me with my damn ALPS touchpad... For some reason the drivers posted by PHB don't work on my (and several other peoples) Dell Latitude D600...

this way works great, but is damn slow on my laptop

switching to v6 again

Afraydo
Afraydo
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Did you use the manual borisbadenov method, or use the pkg. I think the pkg, intstalls some frameworks, not sure not exactly.

 

I'm sorry but you have lost me! If your talking about iTunes I used a package. I'm still running 10.4.7 and I'm on a SSE2. I've never heard of this "borisbadenov" thing your talking about.

department27
department27
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I'm sorry but you have lost me! If your talking about iTunes I used a package. I'm still running 10.4.7 and I'm on a SSE2. I've never heard of this "borisbadenov" thing your talking about.

 

I have a dell 8400 which will only run SSE2, but itunes v7.0.1 runs without a problem. The only difference between my laptop and the 8400 is that I have a fullly supported card, as sapphire x1600xt. This give me QE/CI, the lot. That is why I was asking about the graphics card you have. There is a post on teh forum called borisbadenov, which explains which files to edit to get a fully working card. You can do it manually or use a pkg, create by, cannot remember who, which copies over the files, but also some framworks I think from 10.4.7, which work. Hence was wonderign what card you have, and how you got it to work, as in thoery me having only an SSE2 machine should mean that itunes v7 should not work, but it does.

Afraydo
Afraydo
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I have a dell 8400 which will only run SSE2, but itunes v7.0.1 runs without a problem. The only difference between my laptop and the 8400 is that I have a fullly supported card, as sapphire x1600xt. This give me QE/CI, the lot. That is why I was asking about the graphics card you have. There is a post on teh forum called borisbadenov, which explains which files to edit to get a fully working card. You can do it manually or use a pkg, create by, cannot remember who, which copies over the files, but also some framworks I think from 10.4.7, which work. Hence was wonderign what card you have, and how you got it to work, as in thoery me having only an SSE2 machine should mean that itunes v7 should not work, but it does.

 

Hmm, well I have a ATI Radeon 9800 SE 128MB with QE/CI however I do not have AGP enabled. That could be the problem? I don't have the time right now but I will look into the borisbadenov post and see if installing it will make iTunes work.

 

Also my card worked out of the box, so if I need any patching it would be only for AGP support.

Beakster
Beakster
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Didnt work for me (Dell Inspiron 2200 Intel GMA graphics with CI&QE enabled and SSE2 Processor).

 

Very interesting that you have it working... Might suggest that its not the application, but a framework in the OS that contains the SSE3 instructions which are being called and causing it to fail. However the fact that running the PPC version works makes this unlikely, unless the PPC version called PPC frameworks?

 

Anyone else got it working on SSE2? What graphics card you using and do u have CI and QE working? Has any tried it on an old version of the OS, e.g. 10.4.1 which is less likely to incluse SSE3 instructions?

JaS
JaS
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I have a dell 8400 which will only run SSE2, but itunes v7.0.1 runs without a problem. The only difference between my laptop and the 8400 is that I have a fullly supported card, as sapphire x1600xt. This give me QE/CI, the lot. That is why I was asking about the graphics card you have. There is a post on teh forum called borisbadenov, which explains which files to edit to get a fully working card. You can do it manually or use a pkg, create by, cannot remember who, which copies over the files, but also some framworks I think from 10.4.7, which work. Hence was wonderign what card you have, and how you got it to work, as in thoery me having only an SSE2 machine should mean that itunes v7 should not work, but it does.

 

What version of os x do you have installed and who released it ?

DiaboliK
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using a ppc 7.0.1 itunes on my acer 1640wlmi works perfectly. gma 900, no sound yet as the onboard sound dosent work, but all works well very smoothly.

 

Heres my method:

 

From a g5 imac:

applied takuro's skin to itunes 7.0.1 then using trimthefat stripped the intel binaries. then opened up itunes.app and edited the info.plist to Native = <false/>.

then zipped it. flew it over to my lappy via file sharing.

 

From sse2 laptop:

Unzipped archive, renamed to iTunesPPC.app. dropped into applications. opened and worked! :)

 

still in 10.4.5 btw

ACC0RD22
ACC0RD22
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Didnt work for me (Dell Inspiron 2200 Intel GMA graphics with CI&QE enabled and SSE2 Processor).

 

Very interesting that you have it working... Might suggest that its not the application, but a framework in the OS that contains the SSE3 instructions which are being called and causing it to fail. However the fact that running the PPC version works makes this unlikely, unless the PPC version called PPC frameworks?

 

Anyone else got it working on SSE2? What graphics card you using and do u have CI and QE working? Has any tried it on an old version of the OS, e.g. 10.4.1 which is less likely to incluse SSE3 instructions?

 

Im on a Dell 2200 as well.

 

may I ask how you got QE/CI enabled?

 

Ive only been able to do it the PPC way so far, but id like to run it natively as it really bogs my comp down in emulation.

department27
department27
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What version of os x do you have installed and who released it ?

 

Hi Jas,

 

I'm running 10.4.7. Installed your 10.4.6 disk, then your 10.4.7 update and finally the semjaza10.4.7 update. The only thing I changed from the initial install was I installed the borisbadenov_3.2.pkg. This gave me full support of the x1600xt ATI card I have.

 

Although my processot is SSE3, I cannot run the SSE3 kernel, hence use the SSE2 kernel.

 

If you need any more info let me know.

Beakster
Beakster
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Im on a Dell 2200 as well.

 

may I ask how you got QE/CI enabled?

 

Ive only been able to do it the PPC way so far, but id like to run it natively as it really bogs my comp down in emulation.

 

Hi,

 

Please see my entry in the 10.4.6 wiki at http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...l_Inspiron_2200 as I have detailed how I got it all working there.

 

Basically just involved installing GMA900 driver from http://art5dog.com/GMA900pkg.dmg to get QE and CI working.

 

Hope this helps,

aliquis
aliquis
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I just copied the iTunes PPC binary to the /Applications/iTunes/Contents/MacOS folder and renamed the Intel binary to 'iTunes2' .. got rid of the nasty circle slash for me and lets me run it from the dock without throwing a platform error.

 

SSE2, Pentium M 2.0GHz 512mb JaS 10.4.6 here

With PPC binary do you mean the shell script jas suggested or the binary converted with ditto that someone quixos said? It sounds like the later but someone talked about the shell scripts earlier so I just want to make sure.
Rajprit Arora
Rajprit Arora
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Download Itunes 7.0.4 installer from apple.com

 

then open terminal and type following

cd /Applications
ditto -arch ppc iTunes.app iTunesPPC.app

 

Then in finder, go to applications, rename iTunes.app to iTunesUniversal.app (or something) and rename iTunesPPC.app to iTunes.app. After that, right click on iTunes.app and Show Package Contents. Double click on Contents and open Info.plist with any decent text editor. Down towards the bottom you should see this key.

 

<key>LSRequiresNativeExecution</key>
<true/>

 

Change the <true/> to <false/>, and save the file.

 

This Method works fine for me i have sse2 Pentium 4 2.4ghz with HT

Hey guys any method to make Intel Pro Wireless Card 2200bg For Notebooks work on Mac Jas 10.4.7

if yes then please email me on rajprit007@gmail.com

bgg71
bgg71
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just want to say again, for those now tuning in.

 

i'm on 10.4.7, manually updated from 10.4.4, P4 3.0Ghz SSE2 CPU

 

i've converted iTunes 7 to PPC, it opens and works as fast in Rosetta, as iTunes 6 does native. CoverFlow animations are smooth and

as fast as the standalone CoverFlow app native.

 

don't know why the conversion isn't working for some people. perhaps it doesn't work for some reason if they are SSE3, but will work on SSE2?

 

ditto -arch ppc iTunes.app iTunesPPC.app

 

a few more people try this. not an optimal solution, but if it works for me, it will work for some others.

 

This worked for me too (on Dell Latitude D600 with 1.4 Intel M only SSE2). I mean itunes opens and can play audio files or radio and so on. However, can't play videos, only music. Can't even see the movie previews. These don't work in my browser either. It has to do with the Radeon 9000 video card.

bgg71
bgg71
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Is there anybody has the same problem as mine? In the iTunes Store/Movie, when I click movie preview, it doesn't show the preview movie, but I hear the sound. It shows like this.

 

picture1ai0.jpg

 

How can I solve this problem? (Hopefully this question is considered in the topic)

 

same problem here. i think is due to video card. i have QT 7.1.3. it wion't play any movie previews not even in the browser.

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