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#267116 - 12/10/2005 23:10 QT and iTunes
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
Any one notice that the latest quicktime download is tied to an iTunes install. Can't get one without the other. Nor do you get the chance to omit iTunes during the install.
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#267117 - 12/10/2005 23:14 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: gbeer]
robricc
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Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
Would Quicktime Alternative work for you?
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#267118 - 12/10/2005 23:43 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: gbeer]
StigOE
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Registered: 27/10/2002
Posts: 568
I managed to find just a quicktime installer (without iTunes) just a few weeks ago... Needed to click around on the site a bit before I found it though...

Edit: It wasn't that difficult to find: Here

Stig


Edited by StigOE (12/10/2005 23:52)

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#267119 - 13/10/2005 00:07 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: StigOE]
loren
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Registered: 23/08/2000
Posts: 3826
Loc: SLC, UT, USA
Funny, i just installed the new iTunes a few hours ago and it didn't include QT 7.0.3... I had to get it seperately
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#267120 - 13/10/2005 04:41 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: loren]
drakino
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Registered: 08/06/1999
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Funny, i just installed the new iTunes a few hours ago and it didn't include QT 7.0.3... I had to get it seperately


On your Mac or PC? My Mac downloaded iTunes 6 seperate from Quicktime 7.0.3. However, my PC downloaded a 32.9mb installer for both programs.

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#267121 - 13/10/2005 04:51 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: drakino]
loren
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Registered: 23/08/2000
Posts: 3826
Loc: SLC, UT, USA
On my MAC... didn't try the PC yet. Sorry if I missed that he mentioned that...
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#267122 - 14/10/2005 01:40 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: drakino]
DLF
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Registered: 24/07/2003
Posts: 500
Loc: Colorado, N.A.
33MB for mine, too. QT 7.0.3 is required to play the Fairplay-DRM'd videos for the G5 iPod, isn't it?
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#267123 - 14/10/2005 03:12 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: loren]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
Posts: 2665
Loc: Manteca, California
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On my MAC... didn't try the PC yet. Sorry if I missed that he mentioned that...


Didn't mention it, but is was on a pc. Sorry that my rant was a bit ill defined. It's just that so often I'm finding it a problem that installers are being provided in a bundled forms.

Heck the last logitch mouse I bought had about 5 different items that were offered for installation with the drivers, amoung them Musicmatch.

I did find the 6.something installer later, but at the time just needed QT right away. Apple's installer was one of the better I've used lately. It allowed me to choose the file associations I would allow.
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#267124 - 14/10/2005 04:18 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: gbeer]
tman
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Registered: 24/12/2001
Posts: 5528
On a PC, iTunes and QuickTime are now bundled. On a Mac however, they're still two individual downloads.

Musicmatch came with your mouse? That is just getting odd!

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#267125 - 14/10/2005 10:37 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: tman]
jondle
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Registered: 19/08/2005
Posts: 38
Loc: San Diego, CA, USA
I downloaded QT for the PC just yesterday without iTunes. There is a link on the download page called Standalone Installer.
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#267126 - 14/10/2005 10:40 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: tman]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
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That is just getting odd!


I think a better word may be desperate. MM should be taken out behind the shed and shot (IMHO, of course).

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#267127 - 14/10/2005 13:43 Re: QT and iTunes [Re: gbeer]
Dignan
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12318
Loc: Sterling, VA
Yeah, they've had the QT/iTunes bundle for a couple months now. It's very annoying when you're trying to install QT on dozens of computers, but don't want iTunes. Fortunately, it's a simple matter of first telling the installer not to make iTunes the default media player, and then after it's finished installing, you can just remove iTunes seperately.

Apparently the new official AIM client is quite nice, but comes bundled with about 5 AOL programs that you aren't even made aware of at installation (this is in addition, I've heard, to large ads that pop up in the middle of conversations).
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