I noticed the same thing, but for me i noticed it when Itunes
became a vehicle for more then just music. I know that when i
listen to mp3's on my ipod they sound a hell of a lot better then
they did in itunes. I use itunes at work but at home i use my ipod
plugged into my stereo and again, a world of difference. I wish
there was an alternative of some sort for mac. These are some i am
looking into. Anyone familiar with any of these alternatives?
http://www.panic.com/audion/
http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Any others out there that i am unaware of?
aLEKs
On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Graham Miller wrote:
it is so frustrating.
i mean that's all itunes is SUPPOSED to do and it can't even play
back music... i don't get it!!!
g.
On 30-Oct-07, at 1:53 AM, Dominic Tetmyer wrote:
I second this - when I play tracks in QT they sound as they
should, unaltered and original. When they are played in iTunes
even as Graham said with all the sound enhancers, eqs, and such
turned off, the tracks still sound worse. I have always wondered
the reason behind this as well? Bad codecs or audio summing?
Frankly, I can even render a aif from Logic and store it on my
external, then boot into XP and listen to the same file in Winamp
- sounds like the original moreso than iTunes does. Go figure.
Dominic Tetmyer
domtetmyer@xxxxxxx
c: 928.600.5387
On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Graham Miller wrote:
... the sound out of my music.
here's my setup:
imac G5 with a MOTU traveler. all the computer sound is going
through the MOTU traveler.
now get this:
if i open a track or song in the quicktime player, it sounds
beautiful. great. perfect. just as it should.
if i open a track or song in iTunes, the supposed Apple Music
Player, the quality is not there. i can't put my finger on it
exactly, but it sounds worse. slightly. there is some digital
distortion, i believe. and these are 16 or 24 bit audio files
too, not MP3 atrocities. i've turned off all the EQ crap and
whatever else is in the iTunes preferences that could screw with
the purity of my music. it's all off. but still, i think iTunes
sounds terrible.
any ideas here?
why does quicktime sound fine, but iTunes doesn't?
i've had this problem since day one.
arg.
g.
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