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Question

OS 9 Audio Control Strip Module

May 19, 2014 3:18PM PDT

I have a question about creating/adding a control strip module for the AppleCD Audio Player. A little background: I worked in an office that used Mac G4 systems running OS X 10.4. I liked them very much -- particularly using OS 9 in Classic Mode (I used this for running ClarisDraw which I also liked and still like very much). I retired in late 2007 and bought a used ca. 2000 iMac running OS 9.2.2 with ClarisDraw and Office 98 installed (I upgraded it with an Apple Pro keyboard and Apple Pro mouse like the G4 had). I use the iMac occasionally and (aside from the small 15-inch screen) it works very nice. I tinkered recently with playing DVDs and CDs on it. DVDs play fine but CDs wouldn't play. It said that AppleCD Audio Player wasn't installed. I searched the web and found out that iTunes is the preferred CD player now but that AppleCD Audio Player can be installed from the original OS 9 installation CD. I found it and moved it to the desktop. The information I read said that the control strip module for this player should be copied to the System Folder ("without lingering on it"). I don't know where this module is. The AppleCD Audio Player folder on the OS 9 installation CD has six files: About Enhanced CDs, AppleCD Player Read Me, AppleCD Player, AppleCD Player Guide, Click here if you have Explorer, Click here if you have Netscape. CDs will play now -- they automatically start which is not especially desirable but they do play. I'm not an Mac expert (in fact, I primarily use a Windows 7 system now) but I am intrigued by this control strip module thing. Maybe the answer is simple and I just don't know what I'm doing -- yet. Maybe it's not a big beneficial thing anyway -- or maybe it is. Many thanks for your time and trouble helping me. Thanks again.

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That control strip
May 23, 2014 11:07PM PDT

needs to be put into the System folder, as you said.

Double click the Hard Drive icon and you will see, amongst all the other files and folders, one called System Folder.
It looks like a regular folder but has the Happy Mac face icon on it. (This indicated that the folder is "blessed", a term used to describe the actual working version of the OS) (You can have many System Folders on the hard drive but only one of them will be blessed)

Resize the open hard drive window so that you can see the desktop and the Control Strip. Now drag the Control Strip over to the System Folder and as soon as it is over the System Folder, let go of the mouse.

If you "linger", the System Folder will open, as all folders do if you linger over them when dragging a file. If you drop the Control Strip into the System Folder when it is open, the System does not react in the way that it should and basically ignores the file.

Hope that helps

P

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I must be missing something
May 24, 2014 12:54PM PDT

Hi. Thanks for your response. I did as you said. I opened the Hard Drive and see the System Folder. Among the contents of the System Folder is a folder called Control Strip Modules. Within this Control Strip Modules folder are 19 modules/files. None of them are for the AppleCD Player. A lot of these modules are included in my Control Strip (it has 14 items). When I drag the Control Strip (without lingering) over the closed System Folder the Control Strip does not change -- it still has the same 14 items. I took a picture off the screen of my desktop showing all of this. Can I include it here in a reply and, if so, how do I do that? Thanks again.

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a lot of us
May 24, 2014 12:58PM PDT

use photobucket but , use anything like that

Digger