Updated to iTunes 10.5 today and now my Audio Playback IS TERRIBLE!!! HELP!!!!

UNBELIEVABLE! This has gone on long enough.

I just spent an hour or two with Apple people, starting with tech support for my new phone, and ending with tech support for Apple with an accelerated case due to lack of resolution. The gentleman I spoke with last, said that the feedback section of the Apple site is taken VERY seriously by the engineers. This guy (Bryan, I know you are watching now!) was the first one to go to the blog section here and read through some of the comments. I followed his instructions and left a lengthy feedback comment and linking this thread to the feedback so the engineers could look at what everyone had sourced out. The people on the front lines are still recommending that we sync our phones, etc., which obviously I am not going to do until we have a legitimate fix for this issue. I also did three repair/reboots and then a complete re-installation of ITunes and almost ALL of my music will not play, not even ITunes-purchased music. I always "deselect" the 128kbps downgrade option; it would have been nice if my fix had been that simple!

I'd rather not do a rollback to another version as I have a new IPhone I'd like to use the ICloud with, and that requires a working 10.5 with my OS, namely..said Windows XP.

Here's the link to feedback:

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

The more actual feedback they get, the better for us, I think. I was able to talk to three different people at Apple today, and they do have a phone number. If your dvice is out of warranty, then just give comprehensive feedback. I listed mine as "compatibility issues" because, they are. If your device is still under warranty, use that phone number to air your issue if you will. Yes it is time consuming, but I think ultimately, worth it.

Just one more tip to try for re-syncing with the 128kbps option not selected:

• I had to remove all music from the affected iPod first to wipe out the affected files by deselecting the songs in iTunes and sync. Essentially starting with no songs on the iPod.
• Then I reselected the songs to add and re-synced (without the 128kbps downgrade option) with success

If you don't make any changes other than the 128kbps option, it won't recognize that there is anything new to sync and it won't work (this happened to me originally).

It's worth a try if your iPod/iPhone is messed up.

Windows XP SP3 on AMD processor here. Same problem. Frustrating because I like to listen to my music while sitting at the computer and my iTouch 2G is usually somewhere else when I'm home.

I'm sure this will get fixed, but what really frustrates me is that there seems to be no way to let Apple know things are screwed up. The support website doesn't make it easy to let them know this is broken. Going in via my iTouch serial number was no good because I'd have to pay to let them know their stuff is broken.

I was a long time Zune user and earlier this year I bought an iPhone 3GS and made the switch to iTunes. I've always heard people say that Apple products are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I do love my iPhone, but iTunes itself is junk. I never had any problems with Zune Marketplace or my Zune for that matter. Nothing but quirks and bugs since installing iTunes, though. Starting to wornder if I made the right decision...

just got an email from my support tech to download/install new (from website, update not available on itunes yet) Ver 10.5.1.42 and its fixed!

HURRAY AT LAST. Finally got my tunes back.

Yea! iTunes 10.5.1 fixed my playback issues too! No more robots!!! 🙂

iUpdated to 10.5.1 just now and iCan play music in iTunes as iCould prior to 10.5.0.

iWill attempt to sync with my iPod and see if all goes well.

Over a month with this frickin' issue.

frick.

iHope iNever have to come back to the communities to report something again.

Where do I fined 10.5.1.42?????

Go to the website and redownload the full version of iTunes.

My love for Apple is renewed and all is well in the world! 😀

My music is fixed but I am hesitant to sync anything until I get more feedback from others.

someone said there was a fix by downloading 10.5.0.142 from apple.com...

I did it and it music still sounds robotic on iTunes. someone previously said to uninstall everything and then go to www.filehippo.com_itunes_32/10448 to download the previous version.

i'm ready to do that when i have a chance if they haven't fixed it by then.

drbill53, you need to download iTunes 10.5.1.42 which was released yesterday.