my songs sound distorted on Itunes 10.5 HELP

I have the same problem, I have WINXP, and the only songs that play good on Itunes are those purchased from the itunes store or those with 256 kbps (VBR) bit rating.

I tried playing the songs in Windows media player, and they play great.

This occured after I upgraded itunes to version 10.5

please help geniuses!!!

I am having the same problem. Are you using Windows XP? Alot of people who are using Windows XP are getting this problem. Apple needs to fix this ASAP!

I am having the same problem. Using Windows 7 Home premium. Everything was fine before I agreed to download the latest update of 10.5. It would seem that this is a problem for Apple and the I Tunes IT staff. I have uninstalled and re-installed I tunes without any success. Songs will play on Windows Media Player, but if I tunes are unable to fix it, I guess it's tiime to switch. Wonder how long it will be before they fix this issue?

I am having a similar problem, but it especially with podcasts. All of my songs that originally were podcasts are distorted, all my podcasts are distorted. Even playing podcasts through the itunes store results in horrible distortion. There is no problem with playing the files in Windows Media Player or on Amazon. Argh!

I'm on XP and I'm having the same problem.

Has anyone tried this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1362

Does this solve the problem? I am trying to work through the steps to no avail... yet! I'll keep checking in here for today.

Does anybody here have a VIA audio controller?

I installed iTunes 10.5 on four of my computers and the two with VIA audio controllers have terrible playback.

Downgrading the iTunes version fixes the sound issue BUT you can't then sync music to your iPhone/iPod if you've upgraded as earlier versions don't support iOS 5. Bit of a catch 22 situation really until Apple sort this horrible mess out.

I have another dimension to this. I upgraded my iPhone to ios5 and upgraded iTunes along with it.

I found that mp3 songs on my iPhone 4 are listed in grey and won't play. On iTunes they play distorted on my windows xp machine. All other media plays play the mp3s fine so it doesn't seem to be a problem with drivers on the machine.

Hi All,

Since the iOS5 update and install iTunes 10 version 10.5.0.142. Alll my music on my PC that is added to iTunes sounds like it is a computer generated song. image a computer talking to you back in the early 80's that's how it sounds.

I am on Windows XP Service pack 3

I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes.

I have spoke to the 3rd level support at Apple and they are investigating the issue.

I was wondering if any of you have had this issue and what you did to resolve it.

The music plays fine with Windows Media Player

I have converted the files to AAC just to test and see if it made a difference. No change.

I would really appreciate anyones help.

Thanks

I'll add another voice to the chorus. Windows XP, SP3, somewhat older ship set in the box. Same problem. 😠

10.4 was running fine then when I upgraded to 10.5 it sounds tinny and squeaky. For those into radio, it sounds like a slightly off frequency station on sideband. Some of my music sounds like R2D2. All of my other playes such as WMP, VLC, and others work fine so it is not my sound card. It sounds like a codec or speed issue or both. Also it is not just the songs resident on my hard drive. When I tried some of the streaming radio channels the sound was the same - broken - so this is serious. 😢

I ran the repair utility from the program installer to no avail. I also did a complete uninstall and deleted all of the bits and pieces elsewhere on the hard drive and cleaned the registry to try a fresh install but got the same results.

I then cleaned the system again and went back to 10.4 and all is working fine for me. However my house cleaning did remove some preferences and a few other things within settings but I wanted to make sure that I had a clean start. The sacrifice is liveable.

Clearly there is a problem and as noted elsewhere in this forum, other people are starting to speak up to reflect the same issue.

I pitty the person who is not adept at downgrading and just blindly accepts upgrades when offered.

Steve... send help from where ever you are. 😍

Unknown if this will be of concern... I also upgraded Safari to the latest at about the same time. That should not have an impact but one never knows. Safari seems to be running OK.

Has anybody here been to this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3372304

It seems that people who are experiencing this issue are using a computer with an AMD XP processor.

Interesting.

Yes, AMD chipset here.

To have to downgrade cannot be the right answer!! APPLE testing software before releasing it on an unsuspecting public IS the right answer.

Now they have landed us in the cr*p, a prompt fix is the right answer.

APPLE - Please!!!!