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Re: Quicktime problem

Subject: Re: Quicktime problem
From: "Thomas Ashcraft" heliotown27
Date: Sat May 5, 2007 1:23 pm ((PDT))
Hi.

Just this morning I was prompted by Quicktime to update to version
Message: 7.
Subject: 1.6.   The prompt said 7.1.6 was an important bug fix.-   T

Robin Carter wrote:
> This might be slightly off-topic, but I have not been able to find an ans=
wer
> elsewhere and I think that at least some Nature Recordists have dealt wit=
h
> this problem.
>
> I have been using Quicktime as an audio player in conjunction with Firefo=
x
> and Windows XP for surfing the net. Up until recently this has worked jus=
t
> fine, but with the current version of Quicktime (version 7.1.5.120) only
> about 3 seconds of an MP3 download play and no more. This is very annoyin=
g.
> I have tried to change the file associations so that the Windows Media
> Player plays my MP3 downloads, but Quicktime still grabs the stage. I can
> only hear the very beginning of some of the fascinating natural sound fil=
es
> that has been posted to the Internet by Nature Recordists group members.
>
> My last resort will be to uninstall Quicktime. That will kill it for sure=
,
> but I am hoping that there is a less drastic solution.
>
> It never ceases to amaze me how software developers can take a perfectly
> functional piece of software (like any of the old versions of Quicktime) =
and
> "improve" it into something that no longer works. This happens a lot,
> unfortunately.
>
> Grump, grump, grump.
>
> Robin Carter
> Columbia, SC USA
> 
>
>
>





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