"Music" app playing songs at lower pitch

I just wanted to post again and say this happened another time, today with the song "Beautiful" by A.G. Cook (which I noticed quickly since that song has artificially pitched-up vocals, making the pitch down more apparent).

I was able to find out that not only is the pitch decreasing, but the speed is as well... which makes me think the real problem is an issue with the playback speed. Pulling up a "seconds" counter and comparing it to the speed that seconds were going by on my Music app, it seems like the song was playing back at about 90% speed. Still not sure what is causing this.

Also worth noting that I tried skipping to the next song and it was also playing at that slow speed. Closing the app and restarting it fixed the speed problem, as it always does. I looked online and saw some people report something like this, but those reports involved streaming through apple music-mine is playing the songs straight from my computer, saved locally.

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I did just find this thread which appears to be the same issue. I'll try the method listed at the bottom (reselecting my music library) and report back if anything changes.

1. My EQ is off, and has been off since always, essentially. I just checked to make sure.
2. Music quality is set to maximum. There are no settings like "crossfade," "sound enhancer," or "sound check" turned on.
3. "Dolby Atmos" doesn't appear to be an option in my preferences. As I said though, it has nothing to do with loudness, just pitch.
4. My speakers have nothing to do with it. It's the song itself. If I skip to another song, the pitch is fixed-As well, if I go back to the same song, the pitch is fixed. It's just that the pitch will randomly be lower while shuffling through multiple songs for certain tracks. The pitch difference doesn't happen elsewhere, such as YouTube or other applications.

Since it's hard to describe in words, here are screenshots I've taken of my audio settings for Music, as well as my equalizer (which is turned off). I don't see any options for things like "Hi-Res Lossless". This issue only happens in iTunes, so I don't think it'd be due to a setting outside of it–though if you have an idea of where to look, I can check.

My music app is on 1.2.4.3 and my MacBook is on 12.4 Monterey. It doesn't look like an update is available for either.

I checked online and it seems like those audio quality settings may only show up when sent to an external audio device.

My Music app is outputting to my computer internally (see here):

And then I currently have my output set to a TV which I connected through an HDMI cable, see here:

Edit: It's possible the reason it says 11.2 on the discussion thread is because I accidentally marked the wrong device when creating this thread, which is my bad.

Wanted to update just to say that skipping forwards and backward doesn't actually fix the issue. I just had the issue right now-was listening to Kanye West's "Roses" (which came up on shuffle) and noticed that Kanye's voice seemed low-pitched. Skipped to the next song and skipped back and it was still low-pitched. Quit Music, opened the app again, and then navigated to the song "Roses," and it played at a normal pitch.

I'll certainly try the things you're suggesting and see what happens. I haven't had this issue with Spotify yet, on any device, nor have I with other sources of streaming (Soundcloud, YouTube, in any other apps).

The thing that confuses me is I'm just not sure at all how the cable or TV would relate specifically to the Music app. If audio was regularly randomly being outputted at a low pitch, it would make sense. But, for instance, I'm never watching a YouTube video, and then suddenly the video is playing at a lower pitch (I can verify this because sometimes I have two things playing, like a video and music on shuffle, and then a random song plays at a low pitch while the audio of the other audio source is normal).

If all audio was being messed up, I'd imagine it was an issue at some point along the transfer of audio from my computer to its output, but the audio is only messed up in the specific circumstance of "occasionally, for random songs, in the Music app, which is fixed with a restart" (further implying it's some issue in the app itself).

Nope, unfortunately, that didn't fix it. Just slowed down today while listening to Tyler, the Creator's "EARFQUAKE" when it came up on shuffle.