[mikeeastman]

I just got Macbook pro and I'm a complete beginner with computers and in trying to transfer my music from my olives, the flac and aiff files seam to work but there are a lot of unix E...le files, I have no idea what they are or if I can convert them to flac or aiff and if so how?

[Levi]

Are the unix files music files?  If you are able to make Flac works with iTunes, I don't think you are a complete beginner.  iTunes simply will not play Flac files without doing hocus pocus.   

Here is a good reading:
http://www.macworld.com/article/142096/2009/08/play_wmaoggflac_itunes.html

I just got Macbook pro and I'm a complete beginner with computers and in trying to transfer my music from my olives, the flac and aiff files seam to work but there are a lot of unix E...le files, I have no idea what they are or if I can convert them to flac or aiff and if so how?

[skunark]

Sbooth.org has an open source converter application called Max. (http://sbooth.org/Max/)   Typically the file extension will indicate if it's wave, flac, aiff, etc.   If you plan to use iTunes, probably should consider AIFF or Apple lossless.   Wav will work but not sure how olive tags those files in a way iTunes understands.

[mikeeastman]

Thanks for info.But I think rather than anything I did in regards to the flac files, it was probably one of the programs in my Spatial system, like the pure music etc,  that just did it automatically.