atkrhome Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 On a pure whim I purchased a imac g5, that was for sale locally Full spec is 1.8ghz power pc, 160gb HD & 2GB ram, running OSX 10.4.11 Tiger On my PC I usually run foobar, with a usb output to usb-coaxial converter into my DAC, usually control foobar via an android application Firstly, can anyone point me in the direction of a decent music player that will play on the machines spec as above (other than "play") Secondly, I have numerous hi res audio files in FLAC, which work in "play", however, they appear to be all resampled down to 44.1 according to my DACs input Through midi I can adjust the sampling rate, which works according to my DAC's input display, however, it doesnt appear to automatically output in the files original format IE if I set to 24/96 then everything appears to be output in that, despite the original files varying between 44.1/48/88.2/96 Some help would be much appreciated as its been years since I have used a mac and hence I am struggling Link to comment
wwaldmanfan Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Unfortunately, AFAIK, all the modern dedicated music player apps for Mac that bypass the computer's internal Core Audio processing and automatically lock into varying bit and sample rates require a 64-bit Intel processor. So, your best bet is to play your files with your Tiger-compatible version of iTunes, pre-setting the Audio MIDI app to the max 24/96, as you have done. Those old Macs had a pretty decent internal DAC. Macs don't natively recognize FLAC files, but you can transcode them to ALAC (Apple lossless) using a free utility like XLD or MediaHuman Audio Converter. Link to comment
flatmap Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Channel D says that Pure Music : "Supports both PowerPC (G4, G5) and Intel Mac Computers running Mac OS X 10.5 or later." So if you're running at least 10.5, then that might be an option. 2013 MacBook Pro Retina -> {Pure Music | Audirvana} -> {Dragonfly Red v.1} -> AKG K-702 or Sennheiser HD650 headphones. Link to comment
atkrhome Posted July 30, 2014 Author Share Posted July 30, 2014 Thanks for the help, I have downloaded VLC that runs on OSX Tiger and its certainly easier to operate than "Play" I will look into getting a copy of OSX Leopard and then trying "Pure Music" Link to comment
Sir Real B. Czar Posted July 31, 2014 Share Posted July 31, 2014 As you fall in love with the Mac, but begin to hate the jet-engine whir of the G5's fans (my youngest son had 2), you may want to consider the next step up, which would be a late 2009 Mac Mini for $250-300 (maybe less on eBay). I think these offer a great value and are close to midway (generation wise) between the G5 and the current crop of Macs. example Used Apple Mac mini 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo (Late 2009) MC238LL/A - mac of all trades info apple-history.com / Mac mini (Late 2009) From Radiohead to Little Feat and Bach For jazz, classical, country and rock I thank the Pioneer, the Mac and the Holy Peachtree For keeping the volume higher than me Link to comment
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