Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:34:19 +0000
From: Brian.Power@xxxxxx
To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [microsound] why does iTunes suck...
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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