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  • The Dresden Dolls

    • 10 out of 10
    • The Dresden Dolls
    • The energetic duet of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione that make up the Dresden Dolls have created a wonderfully haunting sound in their self-titled album. They have been able to construct an imme

  • Supernature

    • 10 out of 10
    • Goldfrapp
    • On their latest CD, Supernature, Goldfrapp has put together a successful mix of 1980-era New Romanticism, German cabaret, and T. Rex glam that leaves you riveted even through the album's lulls. It's a great amalgam that sounds current without sounding at all dated.

  • Aretha Sings the Blues

    • 6 out of 10
    • Aretha Franklin
    • While she didn't always have the best taste in song selection, Aretha Franklin is a must-study for anyone with interest in the human voice. She has the kind of powerful, recklessly passionate deliv

  • Bowie at Beeb: Best of BBC Radio 68-72

    • 10 out of 10
    • David Bowie
    • The companion CD to a BBC television concert, BBC Radio Theatre has some of the best renditions of many of Bowie's best songs throughout his career. "I'm Afraid of Americans" is substantial

  • Modern Lovers

    • 10 out of 10
    • Modern Lovers
    • This timeless masterpiece is little known, but it has inspired almost as many bands as The Modern Lovers' own inspiration -- and only slightly better known -- The Velvet Underground & Nico.

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QuickTime Update Forces Windows Users to Download iTunes Too?

A reader has alerted iPod Observer to the fact that downloading the latest version of QuickTime for Windows -- 7.0.4, released by Apple on Tuesday -- requires users to also install the newest edition of iTunes, which was also updated on Tuesday. That reader also reported browser crashes when trying to view movie trailers on Apple’s Web site with QuickTime 7.0.3, but we experienced no difficulties when loading Apple’s movie trailers in the Windows XP version of Internet Explorer with that version of QuickTime.

However, we were unable to update QuickTime from within the application, receiving an error message stating that either the computer was offline or the QuickTime server was. The computer in question was indeed connected to the Internet at the time, but we were unable to determine if the QuickTime server outage was a glitch or a deliberate move by Apple.

When we downloaded QuickTime 7.0.4 for Windows from Apple’s Web site, however, we were forced to download an iTunesSetup.exe file that also installed the latest version of iTunes. QuickTime continued to give us an error message when we tried to update it from within the application with version 7.0.4. In Mac OS X v10.3.9, selecting QuickTime update from within the video player launched Software Update without a hitch, showing QuickTime 7.0.4 and iTunes 6.0.2 as separate downloads.

We will post more information about this issue as we receive it. In the meantime, readers are invited to post their feedback at the bottom of this article.

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