Re: [microsound] why does iTunes suck...

[Brian.Power@xxxxxx]

I can't say that I've ever noticed any difference between QT and iTunes
playback to be honest. I can't recall from memory, but can Sound Check be
switched on in iTunes on yer computer ?

Quick Mac hardware tech question for the macheads here (apologies in
advance) :

Will bus-powered USB 2.0 do the job for hard disc sample playback/recording
on a MBP C2D ? Or is eSATA via expressCard or FW800 external hard disc
absolutely neccesary ?

OWC have these dual interface 200Gb portable HDDs with eSata (SATA I speeds
of 1.5Gbps) and USB 2.0 connectivity - could that be the sweetspot
format-wise for what I'm looking for ; on the fly, go anywhere portable
laptop production set-up (USB) with the option to plug-into the grid for
more heavy duty data transfer speeds (eSATA) ?

Anybody here got one of these drives/views as to their rep/views as to a
better alternative for heat of the wireless moment/insta-tronic music
production ?

(Please forgive my posting this here if this ain't none of yer [preferred]
microsound-making business)



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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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