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post #1 of 19
4/3/11 at 6:05am
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A few weeks ago, I downloaded iTunes latest version. I have seen no information regarding what improvement this version was going to offer; yet, I downloaded, trusting the latest version was "new and improved". My perception is that my music library now sounds better, a lot better. Is this just my imagination.  I'm running iTunes on Windows 7, allowing 24/96 up-sampling, USB to X-FI HD, and X-FI HD to optical S/PDIF at DVD  input on Sony TA-E9000ES control amp.

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post #2 of 19
4/3/11 at 6:17am

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1047

 

 

About iTunes 10.2.1 for Windows (64 bit)

What's new in iTunes 10.2.1

  • Sync with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 4.3. 
  • Improved Home Sharing. Browse and play from your iTunes libraries with Home Sharing on any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 4.3.

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post #3 of 19
4/3/11 at 6:24am
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Well then, I guess it is, just my imagination-running away with me...

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post #4 of 19
4/3/11 at 4:43pm

Apple often does some minor update and don't list them on the support page.

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post #5 of 19
4/10/11 at 2:05pm
I finally got away from iTunes, I love the ui, but the lack of flac support was really a deal breaker for me. Also, apparently everything you play through iTunes is resampled to 48 khz by the windows kmixer mad.gif (on windows anyway, not sure about mac)......
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post #6 of 19
4/10/11 at 8:31pm
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Originally Posted by Snag1e View Post

I finally got away from iTunes, I love the ui, but the lack of flac support was really a deal breaker for me. Also, apparently everything you play through iTunes is resampled to 48 khz by the windows kmixer mad.gif (on windows anyway, not sure about mac)......


Use a modern Windows version, Vista or 7 work perfectly, then there's no more kmixer bs. And the output of iTunes can be configured through the external control panel.

 

When is someone putting a bullet to the head of that walking corpse that is XP?

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post #7 of 19
4/12/11 at 3:19pm
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Configured through external control panel?  I'm somewhat ignorant , how do I do that?

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post #8 of 19
4/12/11 at 9:51pm

Control Panel -> Quicktime settings

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post #9 of 19
4/12/11 at 10:00pm
In quicktime settings you'll want to go to the audio tab and select 'Windows Audio Session'..........Now that I know itunes supports wasapi, all It needs is flac support and I might actually start using it again =D
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post #10 of 19
4/12/11 at 10:02pm
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Originally Posted by Snag1e View Post

In quicktime settings you'll want to go to the audio tab and select 'Windows Audio Session'..........Now that I know itunes supports wasapi, all It needs is flac support and I might actually start using it again =D


Apple has ALAC, why would they want a competitive open-source format such as FLAC on their air tight piece of software? tongue.gif


Edited by Roller - 4/12/11 at 10:04pm
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post #11 of 19
4/12/11 at 10:40pm

Just so someone is playing Devil's Advocate here, you CAN play FLAC in iTunes. I know a few people who do. I just use ALAC because it works with my iPhone.

 

Anyway, all you have to do is drop a FLAC codec into QuickTime's codecs folder. Do that and iTunes, which uses QuickTime to figure out if it can play a file, will play FLAC files just fine. On Mac anyway. I've never tried it on Windows.

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post #12 of 19
4/12/11 at 10:51pm
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Originally Posted by DougofTheAbaci View Post

Just so someone is playing Devil's Advocate here, you CAN play FLAC in iTunes. I know a few people who do. I just use ALAC because it works with my iPhone.

 

Anyway, all you have to do is drop a FLAC codec into QuickTime's codecs folder. Do that and iTunes, which uses QuickTime to figure out if it can play a file, will play FLAC files just fine. On Mac anyway. I've never tried it on Windows.



Last time I checked, that only works on OSX.

 

EDIT: And no, the FLAC plugin for Windows that's around doesn't support "real" FLACs, only ogg-streamed FLACs, so it's not what would be of interest.


Edited by Roller - 4/12/11 at 10:57pm
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post #13 of 19
4/12/11 at 11:09pm
Yeah, that's what it seems like. I just tried and I can't get it working anyway.........I could have been doing it completely wrong though haha =P
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post #14 of 19
4/14/11 at 4:13pm
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I went to programs, then Quicktime to Quicktime Player, to Edit, to Preferences, to Quicktime Preferences, to Audio, then to Play Audio Using, and  selecedt Windows Audio Session; but, the sound did not sound as good as when  from Play Audio Using I selected Direct Audio.  What's that about? When at that setting, I allow for 24/96.

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post #15 of 19
4/14/11 at 4:18pm

If you feel the sound isn't as good as it was before, leave it as it was with Direct Audio, but change sample rate and bit depth as you desired in the first place.

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