olga Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Here's the problem: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustAnotherNut Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Hi! Edited a lot after reading your edited post! He might have sent you a shortcut, or the playlist itself. Tell him to drag it from the folder it is located in instead... It might work! If it is missing a suffix try to find out what kind of file it is. Take care! h. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space_is_arched Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Is your friend's computer a mac? You may need to convert the file to mp3. If you find out what kind of file it is you can search here for programs to convert/play it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olga Posted October 28, 2005 Author Share Posted October 28, 2005 My friend has that new Mac the G5. This is what he said in the email about this audio clip: It's NOT a wren file! That's just an arbitrary title for the soundbite. I was in i tunes and chose one of my playlists, then dragged it right into the list. It showed up and played! So I guess it would just be easier to call him up and have him play it over the phone. lol olga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FrannyNZooey Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 My friend has that new Mac the G5. This is what he said in the email about this audio clip: It's NOT a wren file! That's just an arbitrary title for the soundbite. I was in i tunes and chose one of my playlists, then dragged it right into the list. It showed up and played! So I guess it would just be easier to call him up and have him play it over the phone. lol olga <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What is the file name? If the file does not have an extension I would add .mp3 to the end of it and try that. Usually, that seems to work most of the time. If it doesn't I would do a get info on the file and see if it will tell you what type of file it is and then, like mentioned before, convert it. Hope this Helps one Machead to another. Let me know any other question always can call hubby at work tomorrow for the real tough stuff. Aly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazySoprano Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Olga~ In iTunes, click on the iTunes menu. Go to "Preferences". Click the "Advanced" option at the top of the little window. You should have the option to set iTunes as your default internet music player. Set it. Then ask your friend to send the file again, but as an attachment. Let me know if that works! ~CS who has had a mac for the last 10 years at least, and totally loves it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FrannyNZooey Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 Olga~ In iTunes, click on the iTunes menu. Go to "Preferences". Click the "Advanced" option at the top of the little window. You should have the option to set iTunes as your default internet music player. Set it. Then ask your friend to send the file again, but as an attachment. Let me know if that works! ~CS who has had a mac for the last 10 years at least, and totally loves it <{POST_SNAPBACK}> CS All those in graphic arts, advertising, such as magazines, photographers, etc.. I guess why mac keeps growing and developing more each year beside all the computers laptops software, ipods, the newest neo, software, the stuff is cutting edge. Please Olga let me know if what I asked hubby helped, if not he would be glad to write any now and ever himself answers to questions to help for you, all that is used at his advertising firm, all mac-heads! Now and same as at CA magazine. Aly Edited to say not trying to be arrogant by far, only know macs are not your little elementary cutey puters. To give a little history windows were based off of the mac operating system, and it took almost 20 yrs for them to even get close with XP, which is not even there yet. But for typing letters, posting a PC is quite fine. Olga, please pm or email me, hubby love to ever hel a fellow mac-head. Any others out there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nalgas Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Did you ever get this figured out or not? There are good ways to figure out what kind of file things really are and what to do with them, some of which are less obvious than others. VLC and/or MPlayer tend to be good at playing just about anything (audio, video, whatever), whether or not the files are labeled properly, and they're both free. VLC is probably the easier choice of the two and good to have around anyway. The "scarier" approach is to open Terminal (in Utilities in the Applications folder), type "file " (without the quotes, with the space on the end), and drag and drop the file to it, then hit return. Then it tells you what kind of file it seems to be, based on the name and headers and data and junk in it. Anyway, if it's not playing properly and adding .mp3 to the end like someone else said didn't help, my first guess would be that it's an AIFF file instead of an MP3, since it played in iTunes. You could try putting .aiff at the end instead of .mp3 before going through extra work with that other stuff and see what happens. Of course, this is all assuming this person actually sent you the right file the right way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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