Downloaded Music Sometimes Poor Quality

Once in a while the music I download off of iTunes is really poor quality. The high and low ranges come through fuzzy. Two examples that immediatly come to mind are "50 First Dates" soundtrack, and "Madeleine Peyroux, Careless Love". This is very dissapointing and annoying when I listen to music I've paid for off of iTunes and it sounds really crappy. Makes me want to only buy CDs and burn them into my iTunes. At least then I know I'm going to get quality sound. With iTunes it seems to be hit or miss. VERY ANNOYING! Anyway, I'm not sure where to go on the Apple iTunes web site to complain about this, and what is the likelyhood they they are even going to give a snap anyway? Anyone got any advise?

Many people do not like quality of tracks from iTMS. I buy very little from store prefer to buy CDs an rip myself.

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i notices all of mp3 does flac files, and seems to have qwite a few tracks
anyway i was wondering if there was anywhere that you could download music at CD quality for the UK ?

-Recoba- wrote:i notices all of mp3 does flac files, and seems to have qwite a few tracks anyway i was wondering if there was anywhere that you could download music at CD quality for the UK ?
Unless someone develops some sort of DRM for lossless files, I doubt you'll see any (from mainstream artists, anyway) anytime soon.
That being said, I've downloaded some .flac files from allofmp3. Mostly from recently released "Greatest Hits" compilations that I've had on vinyl for decades. (I claim 'fair use' )
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As I said - look whether your original file is damaged or not. If not, I wouldn't change it and find out what in your system makes it sound like it's clipping.
Good sound file, with volume maxed out. No need to change anything.
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