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I know how basic this is, but I don't get it.
I am on Finder. I press Go then music and all that shows up is garage band. I press GO then All my files and nothing shows up.
If I press GO and then anything else (like apps or download, or documents,..) these do come up.
Follow Ups:
It was right under my nose! Sorry.Now I have to figure out why i have so many m4a files, as i thought i was using aiff in most cases to transfer CD tracks to Itunes.
I guess I will have a busy time this winter!
Edits: 08/22/16
The M4A extension is found on lossy AAC files. While they typically sound better than MP3 they are still lossy. If you ripped CDs using iTunes I believe AAC is the default setting. You have to go into:
iTunes Preferences -> General -> Import Settings. Then choose the encoder you want to use. Choose AIFF.
They must have come from early, entirely clueless, days But it certainly explains how many cds I was able to put on my hard drive. I've been using AIFF for a good 2 years. I will have to cull!Fortunately for me, my main system uses an Audio Note NOS front end.
Edits: 08/22/16
ALAC files also have the mp4 extension.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. ~ Bernard Bailey
True. I pretty much forgot about ALAC i.e. Apple Lossless Audio Codec as I have been working with AIFF a lot lately.
So Frihed89, your m4a files may be just fine as ALAC is lossless unlike AAC.
Many are ALAC. Thanks. It looks like i was using ALAC before AIFF. The former do sound OK.
I am not a user, but found these two links...
And another link about Time Machine...
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22199?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US
trying to locate the files by extension or by specific name?
They may have been moved to a different place.
This is a Mac (OSx El Capitain) Sorry, I forgot to make that clear.
That Mac OS has no way of searching for a file type or name?
You've got to be kidding me.
I can find everything, but my music, and yes...I have trouble navigating the Mac. I only use it to play music. I do have my files backing up and can see the music there.
He's kidding you. There's something called Spotlight in the upper right corner of the Mac screen where you can easily search for pretty much anything.
is simply unaware of that facility.
Surely Mac devised a way to make the following command more user friendly:
find / -name *.aiff -print
Might take some time but traversing the entire disk starting at root is one way to do it! I might grep the output to help find all aiff files where the output has the word Moondance in it, just as an example.
find / -name *.aiff -print | grep Moondance
find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/01 Stoned Me.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/02 Moondance.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/03 Crazy Love.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/04 Caravan.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/05 Into The Mystic.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/06 Come Running.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/07 These Dreams of You.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/08 Brand New Day.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/09 Everyone.aiff
/Users/acwork/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/Van Morrison/Moondance 24_96/10 Glad Tidings.aiff
ACMBPs-MacBook-Pro:~ acwork$
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