Does it work & do they play? Sorry I haven't played around with OS 9's file attibutes for some time. If it works then stick with it, however, if you have problems with it then give details. I'm not sure what iTunes abilities with mp2 are. That's a much older format. In OS9 it may indicate some files as being mp2 when perhaps they're not really true mp2. It's hard to say. Do you have Mac Army Knife by any chance? What OS 9 may indicate as being mp2 may in fact simply be another format OS 9 doesn't recognise such as mp3pro or ogg vorbis or m4a. I'd need to reboot into OS 9 to see what it's response to these files are. After all, some of these formats were relatively new when OSX came around so OS 9 wasn't fully catered for recognising them properly. (To reboot into OS 9 you'd need to give me 24-48 hrs 'cos I'm doing other things that take time in OSX at present. Various processing!)

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