QuickTime 6.2 or later required for other applications to play purchased music

  • Last Modified: October 10, 2005
  • Article: TA27389
  • Old Article: 93022
QuickTime 6.2 or later is required for iPhoto and iMovie to play music purchased from the iTunes Store.

Products Affected

iMovie, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes Store, QuickTime, iTunes

Songs purchased from the iTunes Store play in iTunes but do not play in the iPhoto Slide Show or in iMovie. An alert with a message like this may also appear: "Error during audio playback. The file "/Users/karine/Music/iTunes Music/12 Hound Dog.m4p could not be played because it could not be found; QuickTime couldn't parse it (-2048)".

This happens when using:
  • iTunes 4
  • iPhoto
  • iMovie
  • iDVD
  • QuickTime 6.1.1 and earlier

The solution is to download and install QuickTime 6.2 or later. The latest version of QuickTime is available from the QuickTime website. iPhoto and iMovie require QuickTime 6.2 to use songs purchased from the iTunes Store.

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