Double-click it and follow the on-screen instructions.įor detailed System Requirements, refer to the aforementioned Apple Support page, but in short, if your Mac has built-in USB and runs Mac OS 9.0.4 at the very least, you’re good to go. Double-click on it and inside you’ll find the VISE iTunes installer. It cannot be renamed to remove the (Mac OS 9). 'Applications' is now used for OS X applications, and 'Applications (Mac OS 9) for OS 9 apps. 9.1 changed that, as it shipped at the same time, and along with, Mac OS X 10.0. Once you’ve downloaded it, StuffIt Expander (which you’ll surely have installed on your Mac) will decode the file and extract the Self-Mounting disk Image ( iTunes_2.0.4_Installer.smi). In 9.0 - 9.0.4, most applications would install to the 'Applications' folder.
(This is the same installer I’ve used to install iTunes 2 on my iBook.) I know you can probably find it elsewhere on the Web, but at least I’m a trustworthy source, and you know that what you’re downloading is genuine. I thought it would be nice to make it available for download for other vintage Mac enthusiasts. So I searched my archives more thoroughly and found it inside a backup of the old hard drive of my late iMac G3. The problem is that the download link is broken and you land on a blank page.
Of course, one of the first hits was Apple’s own website, the Support page called iTunes 2.0.4 for Mac OS 9: Information and Download. Since the version of Mac OS 9.2.2 installed on the iBook is in English, and the copy of the iTunes 2 installer I had at the ready was in Italian, the software wouldn’t install (ah, the not-good old times of non-multilingual system software applications!) - So I figured I could do a quick web search to download the English installer. The other day I was setting up my blueberry clamshell iBook G3/300 to be a Mac OS 9-only machine, and as I was installing a minimal but complete set of applications and utilities, I thought I could very well add to the mix the last iTunes version compatible with Mac OS 9, iTunes 2.0.4.
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