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Old October 5th, 2006
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iTunes for mac cannot play wma files. Only the windows version can. I did find this a couple of weeks ago though: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...omponents.mspx

For mac, stick with mp3 & m4a files. You'll be better off. Not many mac programs can play or burn wma files! I don't know of any mac burner program that can burn wma files!
I also have downloaded some WMA files on my G5 using Limewire not realizing that ITunes doesn't like them. After some research on a different forum, I found a file conversion program that is supposed to work. I have not had a chance to try it yet, but thought I would pass it along in case anyone is interested. I will update after I have a chance to try it tonight.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

The program is called switch. It's an open source project from Austrailia.
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Old October 6th, 2006
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I also have downloaded some WMA files on my G5 using Limewire not realizing that ITunes doesn't like them. After some research on a different forum, I found a file conversion program that is supposed to work. I have not had a chance to try it yet, but thought I would pass it along in case anyone is interested. I will update after I have a chance to try it tonight.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

The program is called switch. It's an open source project from Austrailia.
Well, I attempted to use Switch but I was unsuccessful. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but Limewire will not allow you to drag a WMA file out of the LW library into Switch for conversion. I even tried the "Save As" feature in LW to put the WMA files someplace other than LW on my computer, but it did not work. Does this feature work in the Pro version? The only way I can access these files is through Limewire. The Limewire Library isn't even viewable when you browse the LW application folder in OSX. The library is "grayed" out and won't let you click on it.

Any ideas or helpful hints would be much appreciated.
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