iTunes 7, ‘WTF?’
p2pnet.net News:- The latest version of iTunes, Apple’s iPod user-funded front-loader, is being hyped to the gills, as usual, by the mainstream media.
But it seems iT7 ain’t all it’s cracked up to be and in fact, “I upgraded to ITunes 7 today and now ALL of the songs in my library are extremely distorted when I play them,” posts cipher on the Apple forums.
“There is crackeling, static, skipping, and they sound like garbage. When I play the same songs in a different media player they sound fine.
“Anyone know WTF is going on here?”
And, “I am/was also having the same problems as decribed by the opening post,” says pneuma_9000 further down, continuing:
Right after I installed the update to 7.0, all of my music sound extremely distorted with overwhelming scratchiness and static.
I changed the Sound Out settings on the Audio tab of the Quicktime Peferences as found in the Control Panel. I switched mine down from 24 bits to 16 bits. I opened iTunes back up and everything sounded just great…for about two minutes, then the audio distortion came right back in.
I went back into Quicktime Preferences and switched the Audio Out Size down to 8 bits. It seems to be working now…though I don’t know for how long.
In the end, the problem definitely seems to be caused by the Quicktime/iTunes engine.
Then, “Thank you people for reminding me not to be a first adopter,” says softmagnet. “I have learned my lesson(s) and learned them well. Never, never again will I install anything from Apple when it is first released. I’ve learned that only heartache will ensue. I’ll just wait until all this resolves itself, or someone comes up with a final solution, or better still, wait for Apple to release the proper software that works.”
And down towards the end, “Add me to the list,” declares OAKside, finishing up:
Tried all available solutions here, and just about everything else I could think of besides downgrading to v6.0.5. Seems like a soundcard (Creative+) and Apple problem.
Latest everything on my PC: codecs, drivers, updates, software, etc. Clean, defragged, and somewhat fresh. The only thing to slightly work is switching to 16-bit and <96kHz, although still lots of Snap, Crackle & Pops.
Love the new iTunes 7 interface, design, colours, and additions but it’s rediculous that it BROKE the core functionality: playing m*f*k’n music. Ah well, nice try Apple.
We await a (quick) fix . . .
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September 15th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
I checked it both on the PC and the IPOD itself. They are fine….SB Audigy 2, soundcard..
September 17th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
The problem seems to be pushing data through the machine. If iTunes7 is the only thing running then it seems to be fine. But, try to download/stream something (probably do anything) and the crackling ensues.
It seems to me that a little bit of caching on the part of Apple would fix it.
September 17th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
turn the volume in itunes all the way up, and it works perfectly. if u move the slider in itunes, it fucks it up again. they better fix this
September 23rd, 2006 at 12:36 am
September 23rd, 2006 at 1:01 am
I just upgraded to I tunes 7 and it plays good for awhile but as soon as I go to the internet and surf or even move the mouse around it makes a lot of clicking sounds. I would appreciate it if anyone knows what might be the soloution for this.
Tom