I am currently running a PowerBook G4 and a PC both have the latest
version of QuickTime 7.1.6, and both the PC and the Mac have no
problems playing MP3 files.
Phil
--- In Walter Knapp <>
wrote:
>
> Posted by: "Robin Carter"
>
> > I have been using Quicktime as an audio player in conjunction
with Firefox
> > and Windows XP for surfing the net. Up until recently this has
worked just
> > fine, but with the current version of Quicktime (version
Message: 7.
Subject: 1.5.120) only
> > about 3 seconds of an MP3 download play and no more. This is very
annoying.
> > 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 files
> > that has been posted to the Internet by Nature Recordists group
members.
>
> We have quicktime on our one PC here and I can assure you it plays
any
> length of mp3 we feed it. On Firefox. That's, of course true of all
our
> macs too, all of which are also running 7.1.5.
>
> Note that the current version of Quicktime is now version 7.1.6.
> Sometime in the last week or so that was released. I've not
downloaded
> it yet, but will real soon. It does fix some bugs they found, and
should
> be installed by all as there is a exploit that takes advantage of
> Quicktime for Java to break into a computer that I think they fixed
with
> this one. (another 51 megs to download for this modem user)
>
> Now Windows Media Player... That's one sick puppy, I spent weeks
trying
> to get it to play certain sites without dropouts on my wife's mac
G4
> desktop. But since I can play and create it's files just fine with
> Quicktime I don't use it much at all.
>
> > 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.
>
> This is the standard advice for Windows when software does not run
> right. Uninstall the software, then reinstall it. Windows has a lot
of
> problems that can be solved that way. It's a lot simpler than
trying to
> figure out exactly what's wrong in the OS.
>
> If that does not work, the standard advice is to reinstall the OS
and
> all programs if I remember right. I've never had to do that to fix
a
> mac, but I have windows friends who do that on a regular schedule
to
> keep their machines running well.
>
> > 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.
>
> Quicktime 7.1.5 works perfectly in my experience. (it also works
better
> than older versions)
>
> Before you point at quicktime, point at your OS. More than likely
it's
> interfering with Firefox or the playing. Or just has accumulated a
bug
> of it's own that only a reinstall will fix.
>
> Walt
>
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