Re: Which iTunes and Quicktime?... I'm Confused

In article <1hb4qay.18k1a0cij00ssN%dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson) wrote:

Madwen <invalid@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm in the process of updating several computers to 10.3.9 but, looking
at the Apple Downloads page, I'm a bit confused about which iTunes and
Quicktime versions are best.

According to the Apple website, it appears Quicktime 7 and iTunes 6 are
both out of the question for our 366 MHz G3 iBook even though both came
up on Software Update.

QuickTime 7 nominally requires a 400 MHz G3 or faster, and iTunes 6
requires a 500 MHz G3, but they should run on a slower computer.

For QuickTime, I expect that the main issue will be certain new codecs
(video/audio formats) won't play reliably, but the older codecs should
be OK.

iTunes 6 is likely to have trouble playing video on a slower machine but
should be OK for audio. According to its support download page...

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunes603.html

The requirement for playing video in iTunes is a 500 MHz G4 and
Quicktime 7.0.3 or later, but if you avoid the video features then
10.2.8, an older version of QuickTime and a slower machine are
sufficient.

So I guess I just leave it at iTunes 4.01 and Quicktime 6.4?

Presumably that is what you have at the moment?

QuickTime 6.5.2 is still available here, and should work fine on your
iBook:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652formac.html

There were lots of iTunes releases between 4.0.1 and 6.0.3, and I expect
you will require something later than 4.0.1 if you want to access the
music store.

iTunes 4.7.1 is still available for download here:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunes471.html

(It is still available because it is the last version which runs on Mac
OS X 10.1.5. It was the release prior to iTunes 5.0.)

I suggest you try QuickTime 6.5.2 and iTunes 4.7.1 initially. Once they
are running, try installing iTunes 6.0.3 and see if it works OK for what
you want to do with it. If you don't like it, go back to an older
version of iTunes (you will probably have to restore your iTunes music
library database files to the appropriate backed up copy).

Reverting to an older version of iTunes is slightly tricky - you
probably have to delete the iTunes application first, and might need to
delete /Library/Receipts/iTunesX.pkg as well.

You should probably avoid QuickTime 7 unless you need it for some other
reason. Another factor against it is if you had paid for a "pro"
licence with QuickTime 6, you will have to pay again for QuickTime 7.

Thanks for the incredibly detailed response. The G3 has only a 5.5 GB
hard drive in it, w/ only 2.5 GB available, so I want to limit that
drive to necessities only. Until a few days ago, it had OS 9.2.2 so
10.3.9 has taken a lot more room than 9. I have ordered a USB capable
external drive for it so my daughter will have plenty of storage but
that will not prevent the internal system files from growing with
updates. So I want to limit software installations on the internal
drive to the necessities. Since broadband is not yet available here, an
iPod is still out of the picture so iTunes is just not important on that
machine. She does like to play games, however, so I don't want her
Quicktime to be lagging the games which it might do if her Quicktime
exceeds the recommended minimum requirements. She cannot play most of
the recent games anyway because most just won't operate in a 366 MHz
environment. So I just want to leave it at a Quicktime version that is
truly functional under those criteria.

My concerns lean far more toward the other two computers actually, since
I do not intend to update the OS again until the next big upgrade comes
out. So what I want to know is which versions of iTunes and Quicktime
worked well in 10.3.9. Our needs are basic since we're not doing iPods
and movies on our little network. Thanks again!

The other 2 computers are a 867 MHz G4 desktop and a 1.33 GHz G4 iBook.
iTunes 6.03 requires Quicktime 7.03 or later and, while it says it will
run on 10.3.9, it also says 10.4.2 or later is recommended. And then I
see a Quicktime 7.01 reinstaller on the Apple downloads page which will
remove QT 7.04 and revert to 7.01. So that has me a little concerned.

The main reason for the reinstaller is for people who have specific
applications (generally specialised professional applications) which
stop working when a later version of QuickTime is installed.

If you discover this after installing 7.0.4, you can use the reinstaller
to revert to 7.0.1 (and there is also a reinstaller to go from 7.0.1
back to 6.5.2). These problems should be temporary until the
appliations are updated to work with the later version of QuickTime.
.

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