How to play OGG audio on iTunes in Maverick?

I have the same problem. According to the thread at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1656852 , the 32-bit code for Quicktime was dropped as of OS X 10.9, and since iTunes depends on Quicktime for playing media files, iTunes can no longer be launched in 32-bit mode. Mac's first 64-bit operating system, OS X 10.6, was released in 2009. The people who maintain the ogg format, the Xiph foundation, haven't updated their Mac ogg plugin, XiphQT, since earlier that year, which means that it was never designed to support 64-bit applications. The 32-bit mode circumvented this for a time, but Mavericks ruined that.

The only way to get ogg to work on OS X 10.9 would be to download the XiphQT source code from the website and try your hand at coding up and compiling a 64-bit version.

I think you can convert ogg to mp3 for playback in iTunes. Here is a good solution to help you, Audio Converter, a workable tool to change ogg to mp3.

But ogg is a much better audio format. So I'd like to stick with it. Unfortunately, with the new OS, it's not possible. I hope either Xiph or iTunes will soon release an update.

Apple never replaced the depricated 32bit QT C api with a 64bit api. An extention like XiphQT isn't possible anymore in Mavericks. iTunes will probably never play Ogg Vorbis again unless Apple adds the support themselves. I started using Clementine instead of iTunes, which also sync's with my android phone

http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/faq.html#faq_itunes_64bit

Explained in the QT section

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/64bitPor ting/HighLevelAPIs/HighLevelAPIs.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001064-CH224-SW6

Loudzon wrote:

But ogg is a much better audio format. So I'd like to stick with it. Unfortunately, with the new OS, it's not possible. I hope either Xiph or iTunes will soon release an update.

iTunes has never given the slightest indication that it intends to ever support OGG (or FLAC), so there is really no point waiting for that. As for Xiph support, it has not been anything to rely upon.

Use a conversion program to create AAC or MP3 versions for iTunes. Do not discard your OGG files, but rather keep them on hand for times when you are using a more capable player.

Use a conversion program to create AAC or MP3 versions for iTunes.

... such as?

Switch.

Thanks. Looks like it uses LAME 3.97, a bit old but not horrible.

Many of the search hits that aren't XiphQT are for obscure sites that I'm wary of, there's no doubt trojan malware out there.

I brought this up at the water cooler and it seems what our tech guy has prescribed successfully is just installing latest Firefox browser on our iMacs. Then when you download an OGG and open it Firefox will automatically open the OOG and play it. Mavericks, latest Safari environment. Pretty simple solution. That's about all we use FF for.

Good to know, but doesn't help get them into iTunes for organization or copying to iDevices.

True. Off topic, sort of, I see. My bad. However you can use stock QTPlayer.app to capture the sound played from FF to capture and then export into iTunes and you're in good shape and no other software is required. Check out Snap Pro X if you haven't. Live Aloha

np, a slightly tangential reply is more info than on reply at all. I had hoped that xACT would convert from ogg but it doesn't seem to. I guess I need to either use Switch as described above or find source files that aren't in ogg.

To convert from ogg to aac (m4a) you could use open source cd-ripper and converter Max. It`s a bit old and yes, it means converting from one lossy format into another, but it works well and supports many formats. Also lossless flac to alac conversion.

If I'm going to convert from ogg into MP3, I'd like it to be with a recent LAME encoder. I haven't used Max in a while but wonder if it has an old encoder.