That's what you should see if you use Explorer on an Audio CD, including one that you burned with iTunes (or any other CD burner, for that matter). Just double-click on it to play it - it should load it into Windows Media Player or whatever your default media player is.
You can use WinISO to make ISO files, the nearest thing that Windows has to DMG files. Works quite well, actually.
This site is a searchable database of file extensions - just type it in and it'll try and find what the extension means.
DLLs are the same as shared libraries, which IIRC you have on Macs with OS X (given its Un*x roots). Essentially they're libraries of code for executable programs, like Internet Explorer for example. Instead of having all the code in the program file, you split it up and have some in DLLs and the rest in program files (EXEs). This keeps program size down. You can share the stuff that's in DLLs between different programs. For example, you could write a DLL that has a number of functions that allow you to connect to an Oracle database and share this between different programs. Basically, they promote re-use of code. However, as piwozniak points out, this is not without its problems, mainly because of the stupidity of the Windows registry, especially if you have multiple versions of the same DLL lying around. To be fair though, this problem *should* go away with the advent of Microsoft's .NET framework (a huge (and very good(!)) programming framework, a bit like Carbon and Cocoa I guess) and Longhorn (new version of Windows, due in 3193 or so).
Feel free to ask about any other Windows file extensions/concepts you're not sure about. Currently I'm a WinXP user - I'm planning to buy my first Mac (initially a Powerbook) when I can afford one.
Incidentally, my PC has about 4700 DLL files... Nice.
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Originally posted by psgamer0921
Ok, I know this is Windows, but this is what I got when I 'explored' a CD I burned in iTunes (Set under Audio CD)
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That's what you should see if you use Explorer on an Audio CD, including one that you burned with iTunes (or any other CD burner, for that matter). Just double-click on it to play it - it should load it into Windows Media Player or whatever your default media player is.
You can use WinISO to make ISO files, the nearest thing that Windows has to DMG files. Works quite well, actually.
This site is a searchable database of file extensions - just type it in and it'll try and find what the extension means.
DLLs are the same as shared libraries, which IIRC you have on Macs with OS X (given its Un*x roots). Essentially they're libraries of code for executable programs, like Internet Explorer for example. Instead of having all the code in the program file, you split it up and have some in DLLs and the rest in program files (EXEs). This keeps program size down. You can share the stuff that's in DLLs between different programs. For example, you could write a DLL that has a number of functions that allow you to connect to an Oracle database and share this between different programs. Basically, they promote re-use of code. However, as piwozniak points out, this is not without its problems, mainly because of the stupidity of the Windows registry, especially if you have multiple versions of the same DLL lying around. To be fair though, this problem *should* go away with the advent of Microsoft's .NET framework (a huge (and very good(!)) programming framework, a bit like Carbon and Cocoa I guess) and Longhorn (new version of Windows, due in 3193 or so).
Feel free to ask about any other Windows file extensions/concepts you're not sure about. Currently I'm a WinXP user - I'm planning to buy my first Mac (initially a Powerbook) when I can afford one.
Incidentally, my PC has about 4700 DLL files... Nice.