Comments on: Installing QuickTime without iTunes

By: JD

JD — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:34:02 +0000

FYI, Googling “quicktime no itunes” does indeed bring up a link to Apple’s site… but the only DL available as of 3/11/09 is WITH Itunes…

Going with the QT alternative, don’t have time to fight w/ proprietary software…

By: cole

cole — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:31:18 +0000

thanks dude, that helps alot.

By: Sariel

Sariel — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:09:52 +0000

http://www.brothersoft.com/quicktime-download-43141.html

They changed it so that even the standalone page grabs itunes. stupid apple. this link ^^ works for JUST quicktime!

By: Eirikso

Eirikso — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:46:18 +0000

Yes. QuickTime is a very nice media player. And on a Mac iTunes is a very nice music library. But forcing everyone to install both when they only need QT is a bad idea.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:44:41 +0000

I NEED Quicktime. It actually is not JUST a player. Many of the Quicktime libraries are used by various CAD applications for drawing geometry eg TouchCAD and SailCut.
So full marks to Apple for publishing the api for programmers to use.
And Negative 1000 marks to Apple for making us clag up our work systems with a whopping great music player (that saves files in a format that can only be played on an iPod grrrrrrr!)
I’ve now got iTunes off my system hooray and I play my portable music on a nice MP3 player called an iRiver. Goodbye to MP4s forever

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:10:05 +0000

I don’t know if the above information is out of date or what, but I just deleted iTunes without a hitch from the control panel add/remove programs dialog… and quicktime appears to still be installed.

Running msconfig from the start menu also lets you turn off the iTunes “helper” from startup, which incidentally is something I did a few days ago so maybe that has something to do with my smooth uninstall…

By: Dan Borghese

Dan Borghese — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:16:03 +0000

Just surfing and found this old post of mine, and the reply by the apple nut who said “just accept the license” and shut off my security.

He can’t be serious.

Anyway, I never could get quicktime to work properly (without all the memory hogging tray items and itunes etc.).

I removed it from all of our computers, and have not installed on our new computers (and told the kids not to “accept the license and turn off security”. Anytime they have because they wanted to see a movie trailer, they learned their lesson when suddenly they couldn’t get their mp3 players and playlists to work anymore. Not everyone want’s an ipod or let apple run their musical lives – look what it did to the Beetles

By: Nitin D.

Nitin D. — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:28:56 +0000

really, quick time is gonna die soon! i needed a simple small plugin for mozilla firefox (or internet explorer) just like the ‘adobe flash player’ to play online quick time content. but i was forced to download such a big installation file and all other unnecessary softwares which kept hogging my system resources. they changed my preferences and all music files started playing in itunes which is really really a horrible program. i uninstalled both it & quicktime. now i use k-lite codec pack which has alternatives for quick time, realplayer and much more. the only problem is, this alternatives are unable to play web contents in quicktime format. and what a badluck! allmost all major hollywood companies use quicktime format for their movie trailors!! s***! everyone should ban this bad program. it’s as annoying as spywares!

By: artesea

artesea — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:21:49 +0000

I’ve got to say that it used to piss me off that it iTunes installed itself, then hogged the memory with it’s iPod checker.
Luckly for me I goggle the phrase and found the standalone, however pleased to see that people also agreed with me that we don’t need both.

By: KEBman

KEBman — Fri, 05 May 2006 15:39:54 +0000

Dang, too late. Installed the package with itunes, but it’s still possible to just uninstall itunes separately. Of course, that doesn’t help with all the system settings that were change in the process of installation. Whis I knew about the standalone version just a few minutes earlier…