Bruce A
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Q: A1054 inBook combo drive specs?

Good afternoon.

 

I can't find a list of what formats this drive will read/burn, save for CD-RW and DVD-R.

 

Can anybody help?

 

I am interested in MP3 capabilities.

 

Thanks for your time.

iBook white 12" G4 800 mHz, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Mar 24, 2014 2:00 PM

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  • by K Shaffer,

    K Shaffer K Shaffer Mar 24, 2014 3:03 PM in response to Bruce A
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    Mar 24, 2014 3:03 PM in response to Bruce A

    Usually, for an internal optical drive, the specs can be

    seen in the System Profiler> Hardware> Disc Burning

    area. (In utilities folder, or from 'About this Mac' +more.

     

    Picture 1.jpg

     

    There are a few companies who offer upgrade optical

    drives for some of these older iBook/PowerBook G4s

    and one of them is macsales.com.

     

    Some third-party software may offer a few options not seen directly

    in the applications in your computer; one I've found OK is Burn:

    http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

     

    Good luck & happy computing!

  • by Bruce A,

    Bruce A Bruce A Mar 24, 2014 5:58 PM in response to K Shaffer
    Level 3 (689 points)
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    Mar 24, 2014 5:58 PM in response to K Shaffer

    Thanks.

     

    Does the drive determine if it will play MP3 encoded CD's, or is it the software (iTunes)?

     

    Maybe I've got this all wrong.

  • by K Shaffer,

    K Shaffer K Shaffer Mar 25, 2014 10:23 PM in response to Bruce A
    Level 6 (14,587 points)
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    Mar 25, 2014 10:23 PM in response to Bruce A

    You may have to research software options to read MP3 from CD if iTunes won't do it.

    There are some third party applications or players that could play most anything; even

    Quicktime could play some music & video. And some third party replacement optical

    drives offer some options unavailable in the original.

     

    And some of those options may depend support

    still given old Tiger 10.4.11 and 800MHz iBook...

     

    However I don't know which path is most likely.

    Good luck & happy computing!