Tip for better Sound qaulity & its 20 seconds work!

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All my Music has been ripped from CD's into Apple Loss Less (i was using Mac a lot) when i moved to PC. I needed Itunes for my IPod & Applelossless Fornat. For Some reason, the sound sounded worse than my Macbook using the same AMP+Mezzo 2. Tonight i found why!!!. ITUNES..

Now i have never liked itunes on Win, as last week it used 5.8GB of my Ram!?

Anyway to the point.

I just played some music through VLC Using AppleLossless songs i ripped via ITunes & it Sounds 4000X Better. seriously.

Find it silly that VLC sounds better than Itunes on there OWN Format.

Just incase you ask
im using

Asus Xonar DX+ Nad BEE 325 + Morduant Short Mezzo 2!
 
i knew it was cack as in slow but not qaulity of its audio playing out.

Just to mention on OSX its perfectly fine & sounds Fine:confused:
 
I love FLAC quality, it is amazing. Really don't like iTunes, actually abandoned using my iPod due to it, putting stuff on is too much hassle, and it seems to enjoy randomly deleting or overwriting my playlists. Ah well.
 
smogsy said:
I just played some music through VLC Using AppleLossless songs i ripped via ITunes & it Sounds 4000X Better. seriously.

Find it silly that VLC sounds better than Itunes on there OWN Format.
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I'm sure it must be down to some user adjustable setting in one or both apps. They both just decode the bitstream, and they either do it correctly or they don't (in which case the decoder is buggy/broken) - the question of sounding "better" or "worse" doesn't (or shouldn't) arise.

smogsy said:
foobar is not better for me tried it it freaks out at apple lossless!
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There's an ALAC component for foobar2000 here BTW (second one down). Works fine for me... :)
 
^^ What he said, check the Quicktime Control Panel app. On the Audio Tab, check Rate & Size. I often have issues when I reinstall iTunes it changes the Size back down to 16 or 8 bit which sounds awful but 24bit sounds fine!
 
i was going to Convert everything to FLAC but foobar addon sounds the ticket!.

FLAC doesnt support my ipod/itunes so Foobar fixes both my problems

Thankyou Guys!

see foobar tonight :D
 
foobar + WASAPI/AISO is my combination and it works quite superbly. WASAPI doesn't work well for me but AISO does and sounds superb.
 
The iTunes encoders are actually very good. The playback quality is often poor though, god knows why.

On Windows if you value audio correctness, quality and low resource use then use Foobar as suggested earlier.

On Linux, Rhythmbox is fairly clean. Audacious is OK too. Avoid Songbird on both platforms, it's pap.
 
I've always seen Winamp and Foobar as equals in sound quality, it really depends on what you want your music player to do as to whether you have one or the either.

Winamp for me. Though it hasn't been updated in a while :confused: :)
 
Greenlizard0 said:
I've always seen Winamp and Foobar as equals in sound quality, it really depends on what you want your music player to do as to whether you have one or the either.
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They are, it's a point even the foobar2000 developer has repeatedly made (with some irritation I might add), when people have tried claiming one audio player "sounds better" than another.

IMHO foobar2000 is the best PC audio player by a country mile, but for its features rather than any supposed sound quality benefits. :)
 
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