Play AAC music on your TiVo

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February 16, 2005 - 4:03pm

As of version 1.9 of TiVo Desktop, there exists a hidden feature that activates if the LAME command-line utility exists at /usr/local/bin/lame. If this is available, TiVo Desktop will transcode on-the-fly your AAC music to MP3 for the TiVo.

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February 18, 2005 - 9:34pm

Webcrumbs (trackback) said

Mac Geekery - Play AAC music on your TiVo Hot damn! It worked! I downloaded a lame pkg and installed...

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February 18, 2005 - 10:04pm

Geek Notes (trackback) said

The well-heeled geek of course streams music from iTunes to their stereo via Apple’s AirPort Express/AirTunes gadgetry. An alternative is to stream music to your TiVo box using TiVo Desktop, which installs as a System Preference Pane on OS X....

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December 29, 2007 - 2:44pm

Bennett Hart said

I installed this on Leopard. While I can see the AAC songs listed on my Tivo series 3, the song plays only static — it sounds like a TV on an empty channel. Any fix ideas?

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July 28, 2008 - 11:22am

Don said

I had the same experience. Hiss and static, nothing more. Oh, it also caused by Time Machine to convulse when restarting the mac. Had quite a lousy time trying to straighten it out.