Music alarm sounds hollow and tinny

Hi. I have an Ipod touch 5, and I am using the iOS's built in alarm feature for music alarms. The alarm works fine, but my music sounds way different than it does when played from the music player, very tinny and hollow, like it is put through some type of filter. Is there any way to make the music sound normal when using the alarm? I have yet to find an app that will allow me to create music alarms that go off even when in the background (they all have to be running in the foreground to play music), but an app that plays music normally, and will go off even when in the background, would be an alternative. Thanks.

I tried playing some of my files in Quicktime, and they also sound tinny, so I think you're right - sounds like a computer issue. Everything sounds like it has heavy compression, even in my headphones - very odd.
Should I repost this issue in a different forum...?

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Recently I discovered that all of my audio files (music and spoken word podcasts) started sounding hollow and tinny, both when I'm playing the files out of my speakers (Harman Kardon Soundsticks) or headphones (Sony MDR-7606).
At first I thought it was perhaps an equalizer issue, but the audio sounds hollow and tinny whether or not that function is enabled. Also, using Sound Enhancer in the iTunes preferences doesn't change the quality of the audio, either. I don't use Sound Check.
The majority of my audio files are ripped from my CD collection using 256 kbps, 44.100 kHz, VBR, optimized for Velocity Engine.
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I tried playing some of my files in Quicktime, and they also sound tinny, so I think you're right - sounds like a computer issue. Everything sounds like it has heavy compression, even in my headphones - very odd.
Should I repost this issue in a different forum...?

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Hi everyone -
I'm having an audio issue when playing files in iTunes 8.1.1 (10) and Quicktime Pro 7.6 (472) . I'm using ia Dual 2.7 Ghz PowerPC G5 running OS X Version 10.4.11.
Recently I discovered that all of my audio files (music and spoken word podcasts) started sounding compressed, hollow, and tinny, both when I'm playing the files out of my speakers (Harman Kardon Soundsticks) or headphones (Sony MDR-7606).
At first I posted this message over on the iTunes forum, but after playing the files in Quicktime I discovered that they still sounded compressed. The majority of my audio files are ripped from my CD collection using 256 kbps, 44.100 kHz, VBR, optimized for Velocity Engine.
I don't think it's an issue with the files themselves - they sound normal when I play them using the same version of iTunes or Quicktime on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5.6, which makes me think it's a software issue with OS X, or perhaps a hardware issue - but I'm totally at a loss as to what would cause this change in audio quality.
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Thank you so much for this info! I have been trying to figure this out for months... Been driving me crazy why the audio sounded compressed and hollow when listening to it from within iTunes. Listening to 'previews' of the same audio files from the desktop sounded WAY better - now they both sound the same.
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