Trouble transfering/adding AAC files

This started after one of the Quicktime security updates. I wish I remembered which one, but it was recent.
The problem: iTunes/Quicktime has decided that alot of my music files are corrupt (I assume). When trying to transfer songs to my iPod (80 gig video) or importing into iTunes from my external hard drive (160 gb LaCie firewire drive), they often won't transfer. The error "Attempting to copy to the disk "<disk name>" failed. The disk could not be read from or written to." <disk name> is either my hard drive or my iPod, depending on which I'm copying to. I'm using the built-in usb port on my dual 1.8 G5 tower to hook up the iPod and one of the firewire ports on the back of the Mac for the external drive.
The iPod works fine. iTunes will play songs off of it when it's connected with no problems. The external hard drive works fine as well... I do audio editing and music production on it and never have any issues.
iTunes will not "Add to library" any of these songs. I deleted the iTunes library file and tried to re-add my music folder and it now has 22 gig listed at the bottom of the iTunes window. I had 56 gig before. Looking at the files it's objecting to, I noticed that Finder will not display a preview for any of the files.
I played around some more and noticed that if I rip the tracks in .mp3, all of the problems vanish. Unfortunately, a lot of my library is AAC and a large portion of that is protected AAC.
VLC will play all of the unplayable tracks just fine, except the protected files which it doesn't support playback of. A program called Finetunes will play those fine.
Now, it's not ALL AAC files, but those are the only format that seems to be choking in iTunes or the Quicktime player (iTunes 7.3.1 and Quicktime Pro 7.2).
It also affects my iTunes store purchasing, as any song I buy craps out at the end of the download with either a (-50) or a (-10005) error.
Any ideas on what is going on would be great, although I have a feeling it's just a big fat bug in quicktime.

Doesn't work at all for the AAC files. Doesn't work for the MP3 files either, though I can click Add Folder after I drop them and they do add to my library which the AAC files do not.
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I installed 10.5.8 yesterday and it works great.
However, now looking at the song files in the trash, they all play correctly with Quick Look (spacebar).
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Is there a way to access my iTunes Library, which is stored on a (PC) External Hard Drive, on a MacBook Air (through an Apricorn Universal Hard Drive Adapter), without transferring the music files off of the external hard drive?

Is there a way to access my iTunes Library, which is stored on a (PC) External Hard Drive, on a MacBook Air (through an Apricorn Universal Hard Drive Adapter), without transferring the music files off of the external hard drive?
In other words, because the MacBook Air only has 120 gbs of hard drive space & my old hard drive, from a Lenovo, has 500 gbs of hard drive space (and I have over 120 gbs of music), I’m looking to manage my iTunes music from the external hard drive permanently. Upon attempting to access the iTunes library held on the external hard drive the following message comes up: “The iTunes Library.itl file is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have write permission for this file”. Is there a way to get around this?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much!

You will have to engage a split library which means you will have to start answering questions on this forum because you will need to learn a lot about how iTunes works in order not that have a big mess at the end of it all. It also won't be easy when the time comes to relocate it all to different drives.
You can go to advanced preferences and turn off organize media and copy to items to media folder when adding items to library. Next read about how to selectively consolidate items to the external drive.
Sept. 2010, Consolidate selected content - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2589812 and April 2014, https://discussions.apple.com/message/25414357
"...selected the new tracks directly in iTunes, Control-clicked on the selection, and saw that now you can consolidate selected items." - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090919000326840
Remember that when you start iTunes without the external drive turned on iTunes will present you with a bunch of broken links. If you have automatic downloads enabled with iCloud you may have to turn that off to prevent iTunes from repopulating your drive trying to deal with those "missing" tracks.
If you add tracks in bunches to iTunes and want them to go to different media folders you will need to either add them by holding down the option key while dragging if the desired media folder is not the one set in preferences, or by changing the media folder in preferences. Changing media folder preferences only applies to new files added, not old ones.
Okay, I am going to stop typing because you might just reply to me, "Oh, okay, forget it," and I don't need the exercise.
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391

2630 AAC File Format Not Supported!

Hi folks, after much hair pulling, experimenting and googling...
My new 2630 will not play AAC or M4A files. I'm using Nokia Music Manager and have had no problem transfering and playing mp3's (apparently the opposite problem to what most people have!) However, it gives me the option of 'convert to mobile optimised format?'. When I click 'yes', it changes the format to AAC, the file ends with .aac instea of .mp3, I can find the file in my phone, and yet if I try to play it is displays 'File Format Not Supported'. If I then go into details under format it says 'not available' and doesn't list length or copyright the way the mp3 files do.
Seeing as aac files take up half the space I'm really hoping someone can help me out!
Thanks,
Annelise
Solved!
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Unfortunately the 2630 is a bit too basic to accept formats like AAC.
It's not designed to be used as a music player so it only has a basic feature set and no option to add a memory card.
If you are using mp3's as ringtones you could try reducing the bit rate and setting the file to mono by using another conversion program. Setting it to mono will reduce the file size by nearly 50%.
Message Edited by psychomania on 31-Oct-2008 12:45 PM

Change in AAC file format?

I have a 3rd party music player (the Archos 604 WiFi) with the podcast plug-in (which includes support for non-protected AAC files). I can play AAC files created (i.e., ripped) with iTunes 7 just fine, but it has trouble with AAC files created with older versions of iTunes. Has the AAC file format changed? Is there a way to convert older AAC files to what seems to be a newer AAC format? I don't want to have to re-rip my entire library (26 GB) again when I am not even changing the format.
iMac (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.8) Archos 604 WiFi

It doesn't matter which adapter you are using that approach will work. Any custom modification of the output column order which overrides the calc sequence can be done in the Export Action script. Be aware though that any changes to Action script will affect your support agreement with Oracle if you have one. Therfore it may be best to put any custom output in the AftExport event script.

What is an aac file and how can I get it into itunes?

I have a file full of .aac files that someone gave me to listen to (an audio book) and when I drag and drop the file folder onto the iitunes library (music) it gives me the pretty little plus sign but when I let it go nothing happens and it never appears in itunes. I tried choosing file, add to library but still no actual files ending up in itunes. I am sure it's something simple ... help!

You can probably see them if you go the the default smart playlist in the left pane called "Recently added." You probably can't find them because they have some unknown info to you or it has no info and is at the bottom of your music library.

PSE 7 adding unmanaged files slow with video (.avi .mpg)

I take mostly pictures (.jpg) with some video clips (.avi or .mpg) from my digicam. The files (pics and vids) are transfered from SD card into my managed folder structure. Then in PSE 7 i right click on the topmost folder of my managed folder structure and select Add Unmanaged Files to Orgainzer. PSE then Searches for Files To Import by scaning through all of my files currently in the Organizer (i can tell by the displayed thumbs and paths). Pictures are processed very quickly but the import process REALLY bogs down on the video files. This process also generally crushes the responsiveness of my PC (i7, 6GB RAM, ATI 3450 128MB video card, Vista 64bit SP2) even when PSE isn't the active window. I have a CPU Usage sidebar gadget and none of the 8 'cores' are being taxed. In my collection I have according to PSE Organizer 231 video files out of 9359 total files (so 9128 are pics) and my last import took nearly an hour before I could tag the newly added files. In the interim my PC was unusable for other tasks. As the # of videos in my catalog has increased so has the time for the import because PSE for some reason has to deal with all the files already in the catalog on every import, including the troublesome video clips.
What is going on with the Organizer when videos (.avi or .mpg) are being added? Why is it so slow on each video file and why does the adding of unmanaged files generally crush my system (its useless even when the import isn't dealing w/ a video)?
For comparison Picasa 3 adds new files (both pics and vids) from my watched file structure automatically on startup very quickly and does not impact useability of my PC and I can even use Picasa while the files are being added. It all happens so fast and with no impact.

I'm still curious if anyone has any insights on slow Adding of Unmanaged Files to Organizer.
A new spin on this is after moving a number of files from my camera to disk folder system (via windows explorer) then starting PSE 7 some time later, PSE asked if I wanted to add files from watched folders to the organizer. I selected No because I needed to do something else at that time and was afraid of the timeconsuming process i mentioned in my original post. Now after subsequently exiting and restarting PSE with the intent of adding unmanaged files, PSE didn't ask if I wanted to perform this operation. If No means no for this batch then there should also be an option that says 'Not Now' or 'Later'.

Remove matched itunes account tag data from AAC file

My brother has (stupidly) added his iTunes folder to mine and now everyone is mixed up. The problem is that some of his files were tagged with his iTunes account details as he had been "matching" until he decided not to renew the service after the initial 12 months.
Is there some way that I can see and then sort on this field so I can delete the albums from my hard drive. The strange thing is that not all tracks within an album are tagged just the odd one or two.
The combined library is in excess of 50, 000 tracks (I used to work in a record shop and got good discount) so cant simply subscribe to match and re-up.
Any suggestions would be great.

Hi,
If the music has been matched and the matched version downloaded to replace the original file, the file type will be "Match AAC audio file". You will be able to extract this music using file type.
I don't think that you would be able identify other track as the would be standard AAC file or mp3 or other format.
Jim

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