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Fix MP3 files that iTunes thinks are QuickTime movies
Authored by: Slinkwyde on Nov 08, '06 09:05:00AM

I have this problem consistently whenever I use QuickTime Pro's "Save as Source" with QuickTime Pro 7.1.3 and Camino 1.0.3 on 10.3.9 to save an MP3 I loaded (typically a podcast I'm particularly interested in that had an episode uploaded before it was added to the feed). I just convert it to an AIFF before I do that. Since its a podcast that's only going to be on there temporarily, the larger file size of AIFF becomes a non-issue so I opt for it instead of losing further quality.

Assuming Safari has this same problem, Safari users can press option return in the location bar to perform a straight download of the audio file instead of loading it in the browser.



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Fix MP3 files that iTunes thinks are QuickTime movies
Authored by: Mr. H on Nov 09, '06 07:01:44AM

That's because when you choose "save as" from within QuickTime, it saves the mp3 data inside a .mov wrapper, which is different from the default wrapper used by mp3s (which use an MPEG-1 wrapper).



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