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Virginie Fayad
All other music i have inported myself from a CD, sounds okay and the details in the music is spot on. But when i play a albums downloaded from iTunes, then details in the music sounds a bit fuzzy, this is especially true when playing music with acustic guitars.
As for the issue, keep in mind that it's not only the bitrate, it's also the mastering source that's a factor (I'd actually argue that it's the most important factor of all). So if you downloaded a song that has zero dynamic range in the actual source master, it doesn't matter if you've ripped from a CD to ALAC or have a 320kps AAC, it's still going to sound bad. "Garbage in / garbage out", as the saying goes.
I wish they'd bump it up to 320kps AAC or, better yet, ALAC. But I've done ABX tests between their 256kps AAC's and a comparable CD rip, and it's not easy to tell them apart. And this is using the same mastering, btw.
Hmmm i can see what you are saying with "garbage in, garbage out" but it would be really nice to have the option to choose witch kind of bitrate you wanted. So you that way could be sure, that you actually got the best possible music quality or a lower filesize instead.
Other than that, then im no audiofile person, i just think that some of the stuff i have downloaded from iTunes, sounds a bit fuzzy, it is ofcause not a huge deal, but it really makes me consider witch music i should buy on iTunes, especially since you almost always can get the dics at the same price/cheaper via netshops.
A perfect example are metal CD's. I have a few from the 80's where the dynamic range is very good (believe it or not). But download the iTunes version and it's very fatiguing to listen to beause they have the remaster where the DR was squashed. A perfect example is the band "Slayer". So it's not a fair comparison as it's not just CD versus iTunes AAC, it's original master versus remaster.
There are two tools I use to back up what my ears tell me. One is Audacity with the AAC plugin, to look at waveforms and clipping, and the second is the dynamic range meter Foobar200 plugin. I can usualy compare an old CD rip / AAC iTunes download with these tools to confirm what my ears are telling me, which is that the AAC version is brickwalled / clipping / more ear fatiguing. I'm guessing that might be what you're experiencing - again there's a term for this called "the loudness wars" and even Apple is trying to get involved via their "Mastered for iTunes" program to increase the dynamic range of modern recordings and remasters.
But the music im talking about, i have only gotten via iTunes, so really cant compare it to cd`s with the same band. But i have ordered a CD from the states with the same band "JamesTown Story" witch i will rip when it arrives.
Some of the tings he is right in, but i have fx. bought a album on tunes, that sounded pretty bad, i then got the same album on cd and ripped it myself in 320, this sounded way better, than the iT download.
I dont really care what it is, that makes some/most downloads sound worse than my own cd rips, but they do....so i only buy stuff from iTunes that i cant get any where else......sad but true......wish it was different. ?
Yeah, I have a very similar problem to yours. I notice very distorted and almost wavy/rattling sound in some songs I have downloaded. It seems that it happens more frequently in songs with low bass, and I get it all the time in certain movie soundtracks. I wish that iTunes would provide CD quality downloads, even if they cost more, it would be worth it. But I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who noticed this problem with the downloads, I sent feedback on the website so hopefully someone will change something.
I think this may be a problem with iTunes playback. I have noticed it recently after upgrading to iTunes 11. I hear it even on songs that used to play back just fine. It sounds rattle-like even after turning off EQ, Sound Enhancer and Sound Check.
1) Before it gets to your ear, the sound must be converted from a digital existance to an analog waveform. If you have a decent digital to analog processor, it will want as much digital information as it can get. The less info you give the D to A processor, the less it will be able to output, although I suppose it can do some interpretation. After that, the wafeform must be amlified and then sent through speakers, and your ears finally get to listen to a version of the music. So a 3 step process, each step changing things a little. It would be best if the first step in the process started with the best representation possible.
2) The human ear has limits yes. On headphones you might not be missing out. But on good speakers, there are sounds that you can feel. I want to feel those sounds, not have them stripped away by some engineer who thinks I won't notice.
When CDs came out, they used a lower quality encoding so as to get 74 minutes on a disk. The public didn't seem to mind and records dissapeard. Now we are given an even worse format, and CDs are gone.
I understand this post is old, but if the OP is still around, check out two sites...bandcamp.com and hdtracks.com. They offer flac files at full studio bitrate. Make sure you have a program on your device to play them, bit you will hear a difference. Also, airplay might not be the best idea for hi fi audio, as airport expresses are garbage. Use a good line out dock from your idevice to stereo.
256kps AAC is the current standard - there's no way to get a higher bitrate than that. Yes there is 320kbps is the next to MP3 it goes higher but the format changes to FLV, FLAC and others infact it goes up to 920kbps bit rate but different music file format.
Noticed quality to be significantly lacking in 2 areas - the download file itself and how the iphone/ipod plays it back. 320kpbs through iphone is reasonably acceptable using an app that provides a 10 point equalizer. The existing equalizer presets just arne't dynamic enough. 256kpbs sounds so flat and lacking, the music is no longer multidimensional and it's broadness is reduced. When using a decent system with speakers that prduce decent highs and lows, the limitations become more apparent. Recently started using a cheap little 5 mp3 player which surpasses the quality I get from an iphone, sort it out apple!
What you want in a ripper, however, is something that will also go online and get the tag information as it rips. Media Monkey and EAC are both good for that, though not for the very newest albums because they use the user-generated Freedb online database, and some volunteer somewhere has to do the tags.
And to my untrained ear I cannot hear any difference between the highest OGG and the best MP3. FLAC is far and away the best, of course, but in that case size is an issue. FLC files are 2 and 3 times larger then a similar MP3.
I have several of my musician friends that encode their music at 128kbps (ogg vorbis) and are extremely happy with the results. Myself, I feel while they surpass the musicality of a similar encoded MP3, lack a bit of depth and detail of slightly higher encoded ogg vorbis files.
Both ogg and mp3 take the music file, analyze it and decide what can be thrown out to make the file smaller with the least impact on sound quality. The programmers who designed ogg and mp3 made different choices about what can be discarded.
So, fine, if you want to absolutely maximize the number of songs at a slightly lower bitrate, go ahead and use ogg. But like Peregrine above, you may end up later re-ripping your collection to mp3 for a different music player.
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