Itunes 10.5 robot sound

Ditto for me. ITunes 10.5.1 fixed my situation also!

10.5.1 fixed it for me as well! To the people responsible for fixing this most heinous problem, a big thank you from me and my family!

10.5.1 fixed 1/2 of my problem. The robot-sounding Amazon purchases are playing normally but my 80+ playlists are still AWOL. Does anyone have any suggestions or are they toast? I am also missing some album artwork too. Doesn't make much sense...

Ironic...I just spent the past 5 days revertting everything back to 10.4.1, and not 5 minutes after I completed the job tonight do I see the new version 10.5.1 available with appartenly good results. I think I'll wait about a week to see if there are any problems pop up. I'm not looking forward to have to do this all over again if there should be a problem.

Download the new iTunes 10.5.1 and the issue will be solved. I have an AMD Sempron 3000 series on an old Compaq computer and the Robot problems is now solved. Thank you Apple for actually reading your Support Communities blog! =)

Possibly not completely fixed in my case.

Is anyone now experiencing the stuttering of ALL their music files after the iTunes 10.5.1.42 current update like I am?

While I agree that removing the dependence on Quicktime probably had something to do with the robot sound glitch, now I have a whole new issue apparently tied to this.

Under iTunes 10.4.1 our MP3 and AAC files purchased thru iTunes played properly.

Under iTunes 10.5 our MP3 files had the robot sound playback but the AAC files purchased thru iTunes continued to play properly.

Now frustratingly under iTunes 10.5.1 without Quicktime installed, our MP3 files no longer have the robot sound issue BUT now both our MP3 files AND our AAC files purchased thru iTunes stutter and pop when played back.

Ironically, when I open one of my test MP3 files in Windows Media Player 11 it of course plays smooth as glass without stuttering.

Clearly my situation is a case of one step forward and two steps back when it comes to both released versions of iTunes 10.5 and 10.5.1.

My Windows XP Home PC with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53 GHz processor and 1 GB of RAM clearly meets the iTunes system requirements.

This reprogramming of the iTunes software to eliminate the dependence on Quicktime has sure seemed to have led to some bugs in the decoding process now.

Has anyone else seen this?

Thanks everyone for their ideas! Thats what community is. Thanks I tunes for coming through for the masses who count in the millions who have bought your I Pods.Don't forget the little guy who made you and can't afford to keep up with newer technology.

Update:

In an earlier post from this morning I tested the iTunes 10.5.1 update robot sound fix WITHOUT QuickTime installed but experienced stuttering playback.

Since then, I decided to try installing the new version of QuickTime 7.7.1. Now my playback is back to normal across all file types WITH QuickTime installed alongside iTunes.

Coincidence? Who knows at this point. But it adds to the possibility that iTunes has gone through some growing pains in trying to move away from it's dependence on QuickTime for decoding.