If you had been running Tiger 10.4.11, you should be able to get and use an iTunes
via download from Apple - Support - Downloads; or choose the slightly older version
8.2.1. However, if you have to try an older version than your system had, and IF there
is a part of the older installation in your System, it would have to be removed before
the installer for an older version would run in the system after the newer one was in it.
But, if you have an all new system and a certain library of newer download songs, an
older version of iTunes may not function with the later downloaded songs. For a Mac
running OS X Tiger 10.4.11 or later, G3 and G4, you can get iTunes 8.2.1 download at
the iTunes download page. It has a separate link. Some of my G4 Macs with 10.4.11
running in them, have iTunes 8.2.1 and it works fine. There also was an iTunes 9.2.1
which is fine for some older G4 products and OS X 10.4.11. Both of these work in G4s:
• iTunes 8.2.1:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL857
• iTunes 9.2.1:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1056
Leopard OS X 10.5.8 and certain computer hardware configurations, can use the latest
iTunes 10.1; some computer limits in hardware will not be able to use some features
and if you have the iLife apps, some of those also have limits in vintage Mac hardware.
While I have previously had the need to revert to a previous version of iTunes in a Mac,
the process is not something I remember at this point in time. If you need to do so, and
there is a later version in your computer system you need to be rid of first before an old
version (an old supported version) can be used, some ideas of how to do that are here
in the results of a search I did just now (in separate browser window) on that topic:
• ' *mac os x: how to revert to older iTunes* ' - google search result link:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&expIds=26473,27692,27697&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=MacOS+X%3A+how+to+revert+to+olderitunes&cp=33&pf=p&sclient=psy&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=f67b884649a81 cac
You should not have to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5.8 in order to use an iTunes version
you had running in Mac OS X 10.4.11. There may even be an older version out there
for the ancient OS X 10.3.9. I wouldn't recommend using Panther, with a newer choice.
Older versions of iTunes would have limits in how they access the iTunes Store, and if
you have a newer iPod or other item needing a later iTunes version beyond that your
computer's system supports, then you'd need to upgrade the OS X to 10.5.8 or Later
in order to run the OS and get the iTunes version supporting later product features.
See current hardware specs needed to run iTunes 10.1 here:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
So, if you bought a new product and it needs a later iTunes app to connect to the Store
or sync, that product's specs would say what it requires in order to function with a mac.
A new iPod, iPhone, iPad, and other stuff usually spells out these details exactingly and
in the Apple Store page along with each products specifications, ahead of the purchase.
So, to advance past the iTunes 9.2.1, and use iTunes 10.1, you would need to get the
later OS X 10.5.8; and if the computer is Intel-based hardware, Snow Leopard 10.6.
However, Leopard 10.5(.8) is the highest level a PowerPC-based Mac can go.
A complete new installation could cure the issues in the computer, but the libraries and
other user created files/folders may be lost if there was no off-computer archive or clone
made of the Mac's hard disk drive; or if you had no external drive used as an archive.
Good luck & happy computing! 🙂
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