Problem with m3u files and Quicktime

The two links point to the same file. They sound identical to me.

That's interesting ... I can replicate that precisely (on another XP Pro box). Off the m3u, it's like the music is being fed through a Dalek.

Have been fiddling with some settings, but no joy yet with regards to a workaround.

Any ideas???

Even though the files don't play well in the QuickTime Player, they do play perfectly fine in iTunes. The last time I saw that effect happening to people on XP (including myself), it was related to hardware acceleration settings. if you adjust your hardware acceleration settings, does that have any impact on the play quality?

In your 1st link the file opened with QT. When clicking on the 2nd link it opened with Windows Media Player. Both played fine. Myself am not familiar with M3U files. This link mentions something about encoding and media players...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

In your 1st link the file opened with QT. When clicking on the 2nd link it opened with Windows Media Player. Both played fine.

Yeah, if we click on the second link it seems to play in our default media player (or whichever app we have set up for playing m3u). That's how I discovered it seemed to be playing fine in iTunes.

To open it in QuickTime player, we have to launch the player and then do a "File > Open URL" and plug in the URL.

To open it in QuickTime player, we have to launch the player and then do a "File > Open URL" and plug in the URL

Hi b noir. I didn't have to do that on this computer. Just clicked on the links, the 1st worked with QT and the 2nd with WMP

I have discovered that when the URL is playing (with gargling sound) if I open the A/V controls in QT menus and I move the Jog Shuttle or the Speed level then the sound becomes good.

Yes! Great catch, ttfrank. I can replicate that too.

Interesting ... if (after getting the sound working properly again) you then pause play of the m3u, and start it again, you get the gargling/dalekish sound quality back again.

Bug reporting ... there's a couple of ways you can go about doing this. You can use the QuickTime product feedback form:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/quicktime.html

... but if you want to track progress on the bug, try instead registering as an Apple Developer (for free):

http://developer.apple.com/programs/register/

... and then you'll be able to submit the bug via the Apple Bug Reporter:

http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/

In the meantime, there's also a restricted forum available to level 4 and 5 members ("Notable New Technical Issues") where we can report this sort of thing. I'll try to get a post written up on the topic there later today.

I suspect that the problem could be related with DirectX. In my XP Pro I have it updated at the DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) and perhaps it is necessary 10 version (like in Vista) or 11 (like in Win 7)

That's an interesting idea.

There's certainly not a lot of commonalities between our systems in terms of hardware ... I've got dual Intel 32-bit processors, you're AMD 64-bit. So our chipsets are also going to be different, and I daresay most of our other componentry will be too. So something like DirectX is probably one of the few things we've got in common on our systems.

(I got the post written up at the NNTI forum earlier today.)

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telling about the Quicktime problem with m3u files but I have not yet received any answer.

Unfortunately, you don't get responses to submissions submitted via that form. (You're only able to track bugs submitted by the Bug Reporter form.)