BitPerfect (was: Audirvana Alternatives) - Page 4

The only thing that's really standing out for me right now is the problems relating to volume control. To be honest, I'd almost like to see the ability to take volume control away from BetterSound since I personally find it more of a hinderance than a benefit. Plus, the argument could be made that most audiophiles have AMPs and DACs where they can more easily fine-tune the sound levels.

Thanks for yet another alternative.  No chance to test SQ yet.  Is there a way to built in the Updates through the app itself, so that it would update on startup or periodically?  The volume seems quirky to me as well.  When the keyboard volume controls are used, it changes with a delay and seems like it adjusts once, and then repeats the adjustment again.

Is there a way to enable flac playback with this?

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Originally Posted by bulmanxxi 

Is there a way to built in the Updates through the app itself, so that it would update on startup or periodically?

I believe the intent is to get this in the Apple store and if memory serves you leave all the updating to Apple on that. If not, maybe Sparkle would be a good idea? I know a few other apps that use it to good effect.

Does it work with Movies in iTunes?  It seems to just hang iTunes with movie playback.

Ok I'm a little bit late to the party and I don't understand what is happening.  There is no User Interface?  

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Originally Posted by WarriorAnt 

Ok I'm a little bit late to the party and I don't understand what is happening.  There is no User Interface?  

It's meant to be mostly automatic. You can play with some basic settings via the menubar item but for now that's kind of it.

One bug I have to report is remembered playback positions. For example, if you start listening to a podcast with BetterSound off, stop and come back later with BetterSound running, it will start the podcast over from the beginning.

Another bug is the seek function in iTunes causes the playback position to display wrong. Basically, click halfway through a song and it plays from there, but it looks like the song is starting at the beginning.

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Originally Posted by DougofTheAbaci 

 

It's meant to be mostly automatic. You can play with some basic settings via the menubar item but for now that's kind of it.

 

One bug I have to report is remembered playback positions. For example, if you start listening to a podcast with BetterSound off, stop and come back later with BetterSound running, it will start the podcast over from the beginning.

 

Another bug is the seek function in iTunes causes the playback position to display wrong. Basically, click halfway through a song and it plays from there, but it looks like the song is starting at the beginning.

I see now!  there is a little icon up in the top bar for control.

Yes I see what your talking about.  I noticed those same problems when I tried to A/B the sound.  

What you lay out would definitely be acceptable for me. Personally, I'd prefer the a choice between the fine-grained volume control and the "normal" method simply because when I'm using my headphones I don't mind the difference in noise change.

Has anyone else noticed that every once and a while you'll just kind of suddenly get a very loud sound? It's the sound you get when you change volume. You won't really hear it when you are changing the volume but then, randomly, you'll just hear a loud blip noise. Kind of weird and it hurts my ears at times. Anything that can be done about that?