Distorted Playback with iTunes 11.0.1

Since updating to 11.0.1 (12) all tracks in iTunes are distorted when played, however same tracks from albums played through VLC are fine, any ideas anyone??

Found answer, if anyone interested, Itunes plugin deleted it and replay now good.

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Problem with video playback with iTunes

Several problems :
Problem with video playback with iTunes -
Since about a week, When I launch a video, it takes a long time to get started, then only the sound starts with no pictures - If I press pause then play the video is played normally. Did anyone face or heard about same kind of issue .
Problem with permission disk errors
After re-installing White Tiger and After I installed the last OSX 10.6.5 update
I found the following problem
Group differs on "Applications / Utilities / AirPort Utility.app / Contents / Resources / wanArrow.png", should be 0 instead of 80.
Last but not least :
My computer seems slow - I have 60gig free on My hard drive and I test my hard drive and everything seems all good .

What was the fix for this? Everything has sucked for my itunes video playback since the last major revision release.

Why the extremely poor sound quality in playback with itunes?

I am having problems with the sound quality of itunes music. this applies to both downloads and cd's. This problem is new, I believe, and affects bluetooth speaker, earphones, and macbook pro internal speaker. All have extremely poor playback with itunes. This Problem does not happen with playback of youtube videos.
Thanks for any advice you can give.

I would be worth playing some tracks with Quicktime so see what the quality is like there.
iTunes uses Quicktime to play music.
Also check this Apple help on audio playback problems:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1362

Poor audio playback with iTunes 12.1.2.27

Just updated to this version today. Now the audio volume fades in and out during playback. Didn't have the problem before the update. Running Windows 7

Check that you have the latest version of QuickTime (7.7.6) installed
Try varying the Play Audio Using setting in Edit > Preferences > Advanced (you'll need to restart iTunes for changes to take effect). Most users experiencing playback issues who've found that this resolves the issue have reported that setting this to Direct Sound works.
If neither of these produce improvement (and assuming you're running a 64-bit edition of Windows) try installing this alternative version of iTunes:
iTunes 12.1.2 for Windows (64-bit — for older video cards)
The "for older video cards" label is somewhat misleading; as with the previous 12.1 and 12.1.1 releases this provides a 32-bit application with a 64-bit installed, the same as all "64 bit" versions of iTunes prior to 12.1. As well as video card incompatibility this version may address issues with playback as well as integration with third party tools.
For the third option, see also turingtest2's user tip on Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates for steps that may be necessary to completely remove all components of iTunes prior to re-installing.

Distorted playback in iTunes 7.0.0.70

hi, i'm having problems with my itunes. i updated from itunes 6.0 something, to itunes 7.0.0.70 and ever since i have all the sings i listen to tend to stutter or distort when i'm browsing websites or just going through my computer. like everytime a section or a picture on a site loads, itunes stutters. after i've been through a couple of pages, the rest of the songs stutters even though i have stopped doing anything. i thought it mite have had something to do with memory usuage, but thats all fine and dandy. so got no idea what the problem is. even considering going back to the old version, because it worked.
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Problem Solved Guys!!!
I had the same problem after I upgraded to iTunes 7 yesterday.
I found that the problem was in QuickTime Player, & this is what you have to do, to fix it:-
PLEASE READ ALL BELOW BEFORE PROCEEDING - IT'S EASIER
Firstly make sure that iTunes is not running.
(1) in QuickTime open "QuickTime Preferences".
Note: If you've got a small "QuickTime" icon in the bottom LH corner of your screen, right-click on it, & then left-click on "QuickTime Preferences".
(2)Select the "Audio" tab.
(3) In the sound output section change the "size" setting from "24-bit", down to "16-bit".
(4) Click "Apply".
(5) Click "OK".
(6) Now, start iTunes 7.
Now, when you select one of your tunes, they should play perfectly.
Let me know how you get on...
Dell 8400 Windows XP
Dell 8400 Windows XP

Choppy Playback With iTunes 8.2.1

Hey everyone,
Ever since iTunes 8.2 (and now in iTunes 8.2.1), I have noticed that when opening other programs, or sometimes when I load new Web pages, my music playback will chop for just a second or two, and then continue playing as usual.
I've done what was suggested on the support pages aimed at troubleshooting sound and playback issues, and those suggestions did not seem to do any good with my issue. Like I said, this started right after updating to version 8.2; prior, no matter how much of a load my system was undergoing, I never seemed to have any sound-related issues.
I've noticed that if I open the Task Manager, and set the priority for iTunes.exe to AboveNormal, that the issue goes away. I'm just curious why this seems to have cropped up after the 8.2 update.
Thanks for any information!

I had the same issue with a Thinkpad X200s laptop's built-in MM keys plus an old Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro's MM keys, and found this solution in my bookmarks which is working great for me in Vista 64 + iTunes 8.2.1.6 with both sets of keys:
http://www.everythingitunes.com/os/windows/2008-01-04/mmkeysdll/
It had also worked a year ago on Vista 32 for a Dell M1330. Very easy too -- I just placed the .dll in the Plugins directory and restarted iTunes.

Distortion/stutter between songs with itunes 7.0.1.8

Everything was fine with itunes 6.x; then I upgraded to 7. Now when I play itunes on the sony computer, for 10 to 15 seconds between songs the music is distorted or stutters. Also itunes freezes for this time period. I have noticed the following: CPU usage shoots up from 6% to 70%. If I am using any other application (ie. program, email, etc.) it freezes for these few seconds. I have to stop playing/close itunes to do anything else on the computer. I have tried all the suggestions Apple has listed, Q time settings, updating the sound card driver, etc. to no avail!
The only solution I have found was to convert my itunes library to MP3, and created a play list in Windows Media Player. Every thing is fine, the music plays great. itunes at one time was state of the art, now just junk!
Any help would be most appreciate!
SONY VAIO Windows XP

Actually I have the same problem. It's really funny how if I go back to iTunes 6.x I don't have any problems at all, but as soon as 7.01 is installed it does this stuff.
I have Crossfader turned off, Safemode on, lowered the sample rate in Quicktime. I have the newest drivers for my Soundcard, and for Direct X
This is a REAL problem, I use iTunes to listen to the TONS of music that I purchased on the iTunes Music Store while I play World of Warcraft. This stinking total machine freeze totally hoses my game play.
I wish that Apple would look into WHY suddenly it takes a huge amount of System resources to change to another song in this version, when in the previous unbuggy version it took little to no system resources for iTunes to change to another song (and this was with Crossfader and sound Enchancer ON)
Perhaps the new Gapless Playback feature is causing the problem. I would turn it off, but I don't see the control to do so.
It would be nice to see an Apple Rep actually acknowledge a problem with the Windows version of iTunes, and give us a timeframe for when it will be fixed.
Jen

Poor CD playback quality with iTunes 7.2.0.35.

When I play CDs using iTunes the playback is very poor. There are popping sounds that are really annoying. There may also be a slight distortion.
The playback on Windows Media player is fine and the playback with Ubuntu (dual boot) sounds good as well.
Importing from CD works fine. The playback quality is good.
Why is iTunes CD playback quality so poor?
Thanks,
Graham

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93610
"Enable Maximum Audio Hardware Acceleration (Windows XP only)
1. On the Start menu, choose Control Panel.
2. Open Sounds and Audio Devices.
3. Click the Volume tab and then click the Advanced button from the Speaker settings section.
4. When the Advanced Audio Properties window opens, select the Performance tab.
5. In the Audio playback section increase the Hardware acceleration to Full.
6. Click OK in both the Advanced Audio Properties window and then the Sound and Audio Devices Properties window."

ATV (Gen3) Newest updates severely distort audio playback from iTunes. Please Help!!!

I just updated my iTunes and ATV (Gen3) to the newest versions and immediately noticed severe distortion in audio playback from iTunes library. No hardware changes have been made and yesterday the sound quality was just fine. I have one running an optical cable into a high end receiver and another running off a HDMI cable into the TV with powered Speakers for output. I checked both systems on all inputs and it's only the Apple TV with the distortion. Someone please help as that is the only thing I really use on the device. iTunes version 12.0.1.26

Weird, I just opened iTunes to add some songs and now its playing fine.
Though I still can't figure out how to change the columns and having them stick to what I want .

Distortion/stutter/computer freezes between songs with itunes 7.0.2.16

Everything was fine with itunes 6.x; then I upgraded to 7.0.2.16. Now when I play itunes on the Sony computer, for 10 to 15 seconds between songs the music is distorted or stutters when the crossfader is on. When the crossfader is OFF, then the distortion is gone, but the computer still freezes. Also itunes freezes for this time period. I have noticed the following: CPU usage shoots up from 6% to 70%. If I am using any other application (ie. program, email, etc.) it freezes for these few seconds. I have to stop playing/close itunes to do anything else on the computer. I have tried all the suggestions Apple has listed, Q time settings, updating the sound card driver, etc. to no avail!
The only solution I have found was to convert my itunes library to MP3, and created a play list in Windows Media Player. Every thing is fine, the music plays GREAT! itunes at one time was state of the art, now just junk!
Any help would be most appreciate!
SONY VAIO Windows XP iPod Shuffle; itunes 7.0.2.16, SoundMax Digital Audio

I am having the same exact problem. My computer freezes for 3-5 seconds when the song has about 5 seconds left. I think it may have to do with the new "gapless" playback. This is garbage, I can't even use iTunes anymore. Have you been able to find any answers. If not, I just want to downgrade, but I don't know if that is possible.
I tried to install an older version but iTunes said that I have an newer version of iTunes on the computer, which is true, but the new version, 7.0.2.16, is not working. I hope someone finds something back from Apple because I don't want to reorganize all my music due to their bug.
Dell Windows XP

Problem with iTunes and low quality playback on headphones

So I have an awesome pair of Phillips headphones that are awesome and recently i've been using my headphones and noticed that during playback the audio quality was not what it used to be. Crackily on the high notes and fuzzy on the bass notes plus overall just bad quality. I investigated more and isolated the problem to itunes and not my headphones. They work perfectly on an ipod or when I play a video on youtube. So I am wondering what is wrong. I assume it as something to do with iTunes. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
-Winfield

I did try adjust the sound enhancer originally (should have noted that). It helped with some of the notes, did not fix. Where is the equalizer in 10.6?

How can I add a delay to sync iTunes playback with my Sonos system

I have a Sonos multi-room audio system which accesses all my music from a drive on my Airport Extreme base station. These music files are also accessed through iTunes on my Macs.
When I'm at my Macs, I prefer to use iTunes to play my music, so I have an Airport Express which is used as a line-in source for the Sonos system. Using this, I can play my music on a Mac and also have it play through all the other speakers on the Sonos system.
The only drawback is, the Sonos system introduces a slight delay in order to sync the different players, which puts it out of sync with iTunes.
Is there a plug-in or similar that would allow me to introduce a small delay in the playback from iTunes without affecting the feed to the Airport Express?
Thanks in advance.

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Playback issues with iTunes Match on iPhone 4 (iOS 5.0.1)

I'm running into several odd issues when playing songs on my iPhone with iTunes Match enabled. The problems I've experienced are:
A song partially plays, then skips to the next song.
Sometimes songs will not pause, pause after a 2-3 second delay, or pause, then start playing again when I press the pause button.
Sometimes there is a 3-5 second delay when playing songs that have already been downloaded.
Sometimes a song will play distorted, it just sounds like static.
Once, I pressed play on my iPhone and it just started playing random songs, some that had not even been downloaded before.
A few times, when I pressed play on already downloaded songs, nothing happened.
Now, some notes about these problems I've been having: I have a mix of matched, uploaded, and purchased songs. I haven't found a pattern as far as the type of songs that any of the issues occur with. With problem 1, I can kind of understand this happening if the song hasn't completely downloaded, but this happens even for songs that I've downloaded. It doesn't always skip the song in the same place and I can even go right back to the same song and play it all the way through again with no problems. With problem 2, it seems like maybe I'm just being impatient here, however, I'm not sure why there's a delay when these are downloaded songs and the artwork has already been downloaded. Sometimes if I just wait about 10-15 seconds it will finally start playing, but again, that seems odd since I've already downloaded the song. Problem 2 and 3 are kind of similar. I've noticed that sometimes when this happens that I can see the "network processing" indicator in the status bar, but sometimes not. It's a little odd to see my iPhone going out to the network to play a song that I have already downloaded and have the artwork (assuming metadata as well) for the song. Problem 4 has happened just a few times, but usually happens immediately after I unpause the song or start playing a song. Again, I can go back and play the same song normally and have played the same song before previously. Once, it caused the Music app to just crash entirely. Not much to say about problem 5 other than I checked shuffle and it was off. Just a little odd. Not much to say about problem 6 either other than it hasn't happened in a few weeks now.
Sorry for the wall of text, but it just seems that there are a bunch of odd issues going on that I haven't seen anyone else have aside from problem 1. I've already tried turning iTunes Match off and on. I've deleted all songs twice. I haven't jailbroken my phone or anything. I can't find a pattern because it happens with matched, purchased, and uploaded songs. Sometimes it will happen to 1 song, I will try it again some other time on the same song. I listen to music for about 6 hours a day using WiFi and at least one of these problems happens about every 2 days.
Aside from the problems I've been having, the service is great. I do understand it's fairly new and even with all of that, I still think the positives outweigh the negatives, especially for just $25.
I'm lost, though. Anyone have any ideas?
Message was edited by: burakkuchi - Added problem 6.

When I went to restore my phone, I may have found the cause of these problems. I never deleted all of my original synced songs before enabling iTunes Match.
When I just went to do the restore, I figured I'd delete all of my songs, then disable iTunes Match. After deleting about 3.5 GB of music and disabling iTunes Match, I ran the sync to backup my iPhone. It said there was still 2.2 GB of music. I checked my phone just in case and there was 2.2 GB there, probably the original synced songs that I never removed.
Anyway, I'm doing the restore now just in case and will respond tomorrow with how everything is working.

SEVERE, MAJOR Problems with ITunes Video Playback on 64-bit Win7

So I got a new rig (ASUS G74SX running 64-bit Win7 Home Prem) after I figured my nearly 5-year old HP Pav dv9500t running 32-bit Vista Home Prem had put in good years of work. In using ITunes on the Vista system, I never really saw problems with its player on video podcasts.
Completely different story on the Win7 machine. Aside from all the other problems noted with ITunes itself (not the player) in this forum, there is this:
1. When something like UAC occurs, the video clip runs in the player, but the video is frozen (like a photographic still) while the audio continues to run on normally. Workaround: minimize then restore the player window, then the video part of playback returns. Of course that gets annoying doing that multiple times after a while.
2. With one video podcast (for example, The Young Turks podcasts), while the audio again continues normally, the video track lags unbelievably. The video appears in slow motion. The viewer risks a headache from vertigo if the viewer continues watching slow motion video unmatched with the normal audio.
At first I considered the possiblity that it was related to a 5400 rpm hard disk drive, which came with the new machine and I would not have normally have not bought myself, but I had someone buying it for me (my HP system only had 7200 rpm drives...what is ASUS thinking in letting Best Buy do a performance markdown?). Then I played that video podcast with VLC media player, and it absolutely had NO problem keeping up with the video and audio. (Another thing to like and prefer with this player is that you can keep the window on top.)
Seriously, the programming group at ITunes should be ashamed and maybe every member of its group should consider getting another day job. With each revision, ITunes seems to get worse.

My installation of version 10.6.x of ITunes does not have QuickTime.
As of version 10.5 of ITunes, QuickTime is no longer apparently bundled with ITunes, which clearly has its own player. In addition, I have used a minimal install of ITunes. This eliminates the install of the bug-ridden Bonjour service, which was filling up Windows event logs needlessly and crashing from time to time anyway.
Now although I installed ITunes only a few days ago in this new laptop, I did find ITunes in the Programs & Features page and clicked Repair. After the "repair," I played the video revealing the flaws of the ITunes player, and the playback problems were still there. I used the other media player and it played flawlessly.

TS1362 my iTunes wont play music or videos when i open it it comes up with "iTunes has detected a problem with your audio with your configuration AudioVideo playback may not operate properly"

my iTunes wont play music or videos when i open it it comes up with "iTunes has detected a problem with your audio with your configuration AudioVideo playback may not operate properly" i have uninstalled it and reinstalled it twice and it stil lcomes up with that message every time I opentheiTunes icon I dont knowwhat to do

Hello Wade,
This is typically indicative of an issue with the installation of QuickTime on your computer. The following article provides steps for reinstalling QuickTime to resolve the issue.
"iTunes cannot run because it has detected a problem with your audio configuration"
Resolution
QuickTime may need to be reinstalled. Follow the steps below to uninstall QuickTime and then download and install QuickTime using the QuickTime standalone Installer.
On the Start menu, click Control Panel.
Follow the steps appropriate for your Windows operating system below.
Windows XP and Windows 2000: Open the Add or Remove Programs control panel and selectQuickTime in the list of currently installed programs.
Windows Vista and Windows 7: Click Uninstall a program (or if using Windows Vista's Classic View of the Control Panel, click Programs and Features) and select QuickTime in the list of currently installed programs.
Click the Remove button (or Uninstall for Windows Vista and Windows 7) and follow the prompts to remove QuickTime from your computer.
Download QuickTime. Note: There are two options for downloading QuickTime, be sure to select the option that does not include iTunes.
During the download:
If you choose to run the installer, proceed to the next step.
If you choose to save the download, double click the QuickTimeInstaller file, then proceed to next step.
Follow the on-screen instructions to install QuickTime.
Reopen iTunes.
iTunes for Windows: iTunes cannot run because it detects an issue with QuickTime
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1371
Cheers,
Allen

Distorted Playback with iTunes 11.0.1

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