Anyone running iTunes 10.7 on El Capitan?

[jdryyz]

Just so I do not waste too much time on this, will iTunes 10.7 see an "iTunes server" running on a NAS? I know a newer version of iTunes will.

 

[LinaDelRey]

Dear
AoxoA, this is Lina from Europe ... I did an extra signup to let you know how brilliant this is!!!
Im running an 24" iMac early 2008 on OSX 10.11.6. The new iTunes version pissed me off instantly, so I just deleted it and replaced everything the OLD way. Which you mentionned didnt work cleanly. I downed to iTunes 10.3 to get this annoying "error -42401", the one you DIDNT come across. Upping step by step to 10.7 didnt make that go away. iTunes worked fine after pressing the error away ... for a few days. Then I noticed a kernel crash while playing songs. Which led me here.

Needless to say I was way too lazy doing ALL the steps since I didnt wanna keep the El Capitan version of iTunes AT ALL.

What I did was everything WITHOUT the steps of iTunes 11 or 12 in your description.

1) turn off csrutil
2) replace iTunes 10.7 installer thingies with Pacifist
3) replace iTunes 10 CoreFP.framework
4) replaced iTunes Library file PLUS the .extras file AND the .xml file
5) restart and BINGO!!!!

iTunes 10.7 is now actualizing my 175 GB Media Library

****** PARTY ***** (and a big fat THANK YOU)

 

[Riku7]

If you downgrade iTunes according to some of these guides that you find around, it's clear that the old iTunes version doesn't use .itl library files. I have plenty of playlists and ratings and it's crucial that I get to keep them.
Will downgrading to 10.7 or at least 11.4 (I'm on Yosemite) break all the playlists, ratings etc. for good or is there a way to safely keep those as well? I'm surprised by how little this gets mentioned in the guides that I come across.

 

[AoxoA]

If you downgrade iTunes according to some of these guides that you find around, it's clear that the old iTunes version doesn't use .itl library files. I have plenty of playlists and ratings and it's crucial that I get to keep them.
Will downgrading to 10.7 or at least 11.4 (I'm on Yosemite) break all the playlists, ratings etc. for good or is there a way to safely keep those as well? I'm surprised by how little this gets mentioned in the guides that I come across.

I have been reverting to iTunes 10.7 since forever. I have no experience with your situation. My guide assumes you will need to restore to your old iTunes 10.7 library. In doing so, you will need to redo any imports you made with iTunes 12, etc… If you launch or were previously using iTunes 12 your library indexes and playlists are converted to the version 12 format. The version 12 formats are unusable by iTunes 10. (music files are are still .aiff, mp3 or whatever...that doesn't change, etc...).
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Dear
AoxoA, this is Lina from Europe ... I did an extra signup to let you know how brilliant this is!!!
Im running an 24" iMac early 2008 on OSX 10.11.6. The new iTunes version pissed me off instantly, so I just deleted it and replaced everything the OLD way. Which you mentionned didnt work cleanly. I downed to iTunes 10.3 to get this annoying "error -42401", the one you DIDNT come across. Upping step by step to 10.7 didnt make that go away. iTunes worked fine after pressing the error away ... for a few days. Then I noticed a kernel crash while playing songs. Which led me here.

Needless to say I was way too lazy doing ALL the steps since I didnt wanna keep the El Capitan version of iTunes AT ALL.

What I did was everything WITHOUT the steps of iTunes 11 or 12 in your description.

1) turn off csrutil
2) replace iTunes 10.7 installer thingies with Pacifist
3) replace iTunes 10 CoreFP.framework
4) replaced iTunes Library file PLUS the .extras file AND the .xml file
5) restart and BINGO!!!!

iTunes 10.7 is now actualizing my 175 GB Media Library

****** PARTY ***** (and a big fat THANK YOU)

Thank you. Another person contacted me about that error. So, basically, you got the error because you did not follow the instructions?

 

[AoxoA]

Updated my guide to revert iTunes 12 (any version) to iTunes 10.7. It will work on Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra. Might also work on Mojave (but I haven’t tested it yet).

You won't lose Mac App Store’s (MAS) functionality either. https://aoxoa.co/downgrade-revert-from-itunes-12-to-itunes-10-7/

 

[verbcrunch2]

AoxoA - THANK YOU !! It's a lot of work to dodge Apple's "upgrades" - your expertise has been indispensable.