Yate can optionally use an additional component to assist with the extraction of audio properties of MPEG-4 files which are not AAC or ALAC.
Typically you will be prompted to automatically install this component when Yate is first run. You can also force an installation via Yate>Setup>Install Additional Components. If you are running Yate in an environment which either has no web access or limits the connectivity, you can perform the following steps to manually install the components on a Mac where you have web access.
- On a Mac with web access, use a browser to download the file at:
https://2manyrobots.com/Updates/YateMain/bin8.zip
- Copy the downloaded bin8.zip file to the Mac running Yate. All subsequent steps are on the Mac running Yate.
- In the Finder go to the following folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Yate
- If the Library folder is hidden you can use the Finder's Go menu's Go to folder menu item. Paste in the above folder as the destination folder.
- Copy the downloaded bin8.zip file to the above folder.
- If a folder named bin exists, delete it.
- In the Finder window, select the bin8.zip file and from the context menu select Open (or double click on the item).
- A folder named bin8 will be created and will contain the required additional components.
- Rename the bin8 folder to bin.
- You can delete the bin8.zip file.
Note: if for any reason you have to repeat this procedure on a later release of Yate, you must examine this topic again. The bin8 name may change.
