Hi Pat

We don't HAVE to load AIFF files via QuickTime. We just do it because we use QuickTime to load other flavors of audio files and it makes sense to load everything the same way. If for some reason Lion has broken AIFF load, we can (and have in the past) load AIFF without QuickTime.

PG Music has several Lion installs, purchased via AppStore like I think all or most Lion installs have happened so far. IOW, upgrade installs.

I read that Apple intends to shortly start selling Lion on a thumbdrive. I've been waiting to get one of those so I can install a test system "clean" without anything legacy tagging along from MacOS 10.6. Either that or buy a new mac with Lion pre-installed, though an expensive option.

In other words, I'd like to be able to test on a "pure" Lion to make sure of what is going on and what a "pure vanilla" Lion ought to be capable of.

Rob in Tech Support did good web-research on this yesterday and recovered a few reports of similar problems. It seems doubtful that all of the PG test computers have previously installed Flip-4-Mac, but my systems have had Flip-4-Mac installed. I'm pretty sure the functions we call are not Flip-4-Mac dependent, or MANY 10.5 and 10.6 customers would have seen the problem, because it is doubtful that they would ALL have installed Flip-4-Mac. So it may be possible that uninstalling Flip-4-Mac or other actions could mess up a Lion quicktime install (as alleged in the following user report)--

This report shows the same crash log error you got, but the user got it from trying to use QuickTimePlayer.

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Found 2 people who had done the same action and gotten the same error. Upgraded to Lion and removed Flip4Mac which apparently removes important quicktime components by mistake. Flip4Mac is a video converter to be able to deal with WMV on a Mac. Could our customer have done this?

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Link (dyld) error:
Symbol not found:

the problem was solved by reinstalling Flip4Mac - when I had un-installed it, the uninstaller had removed vital elements of Quicktime.
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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3211124

Any help would be greatly welcome. I installed lion the other day everything worked fine. so i removed flip4mac and now the old quicktime just opens and quits. this happens with imovie as well giving me the same error.but final cut x works. I reinstalled lion the other day thinking this would fix it it does not. I have a feeling it has to dow with the old qt framework based on the error.
Process: QuickTime Player 7 [6722]
Path: /Applications/Utilities/QuickTime Player 7.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime Player 7
Identifier: com.apple.quicktimeplayer
Version: 7.6.6 (7.6.6)
Build Info: QuickTimePlayer-17090000~1
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [227]

Date/Time: 2011-07-25 15:51:18.192 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)
Report Version: 9
Interval Since Last Report: 55508 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 76
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 40 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Anonymous UUID: 430846D7-6B5F-4FCA-A363-8EEEFB034534

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Application Specific Information:
objc[6722]: garbage collection is OFF

Dyld Error Message:
Symbol not found: _ValidateAudioChannelLayout
Referenced from: /Library/QuickTime/QuickTimeComponents.component/Contents/MacOS/QuickTimeCompon ents
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/QuickTime.framework/Versions/A/QuickTime

James Chandler Jr
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