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Before I forget I want to thank Apple Computers for hosting an Emagic driver I needed from before they bought the company. I have said a lot of bad things about them before but I appreciate this.

yes, and i'd like to thank them for cancelling emagic pc support less than 6 months after i paid for a very expensive update and then never updating the program again after the most basic of bug fixes.

oh well, they can't please everybody....

uninstall quicktime and use quicktime lite(quicktime alternative).

you can get it here:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Qui ... native.htm

no spyware. all your quicktime apps will work....

Gary,

As I have mentioned before the same thing happened to me. I was going to get the superior latency with Logic. Fortunately, I bought the interface first and hadn't yet invested in Logic yet. At the time everyone said it was better.


I blame Steve Jobs for dropping the pc users. From everything I have heard about him, he is a total dick. Obviously Garage Band was the priority for them. In any event the midi interface still works and has never been a problem. If not for Apple, I would be using Logic now probably and so would a lot of other people.

They keep trying to get Quicktime in there, for instance if you install iTunes. I like iTunes as a podcatcher. I'm not sure if there is another one as good. The software I was using before sucked. I would not buy music from Apple because of the DRM etc.. I recently bought some music on Amazon. It was high quality mp3. It was quick and easy, very nice experience.

braincell wrote:...I blame Steve Jobs for dropping the pc users. From everything I have heard about him, he is a total dick. ...

... I would not buy music from Apple because of the DRM etc...

well, as with everyone else you dunno in advance what life will go like...
he really was one of the outstanding smart guys in the early 80s, if not the one to make happen what we experience as our regular daily use of technology.
When he pushed Apple's early visions into reality, he was a different kind of guy than today - the company spirit was different, too.
I've experienced a lot of that first hand.

One of those experiences was a round-table talk with top Apple exectives and industrial key accounts about the sheer impossibility to further push a technically superior system with a dramatically lower total cost of ownership further into the corporate market.
It was impossible, as in that domain other rules apply...
btw Jobs made his NEXT experience around that time, invested in PIXAR etc

Only a couple of years later Apple seemed to have learned the lesson and turned the Micro$oft way, Jobs obviously had learned to play the game of the big boys, too - when he returned.
He's a boring old fart today - sorry to write that, but all public pictures he featured in recent years seem to suggest exactly that.
I'm pretty sure he never did expect himself which direction his business would take, more than 25 years ago

regarding iTunes I always thought that was preview quality in the store
LOL - it's the final product
actually I wouldn't mind the DRM (as long as they don't f*ck you by a license server like M$ did and which is shut down now...), but even iTune's high-quality is barely acceptable- what a crap...

cheers, Tom

You could disable Quicktime from starting when you start your computer, also associate most of the extensions with other programs. That ought to curtail them a bit. I don't like the way Quicktime and iTunes always try to be running in the background all the time. I use Real Alternative too. I noticed that fewer people are using Real Media and have switched to Flash and other formats.

stardust wrote:

garyb wrote:uninstall quicktime and use quicktime lite(quicktime alternative).

you can get it here:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Qui ... native.htm

no spyware. all your quicktime apps will work....

I get a rundll crash everytime I want to configure qicktime alternative.

Seem not a workable way, but thanks for the tip.

I have to stick to vlc for mov files, I guess.

hmmm, i've installed that on probably 40-50 computers without a problem...crazy...

Thanks for annoying me asking for updates, while trying to sneak your crappy browser on to my PC.

apple PC software is designed to make PCs run like crap to make macs look better.

Even though their OS now runs on Intel chips, they still won't sell it to PC users. Now that is stubborn. Someone needs to fire Jobs!

that would kill jobs

braincell wrote:Even though their OS now runs on Intel chips, they still won't sell it to PC users. Now that is stubborn. Someone needs to fire Jobs!

They have to keep the myth alive that their hardware is in some way better,
even though it is made in the exact same asus factory with the exact same chipsets, chips memory, hard drives and other parts as anyone else selling pre-built computers.(the cheap OEM kind)