Fix for distorted sound in itunes ver 7.0

Yes it worked thx bud!

My work PC has a onboard crappy soundcard so it only supports 48khz / 16bit.

My audigy Xi-Fi supports 192khz / 32bit and I didn't have to change any settings on that.

Thx again

Yup this fix worked for me too.

didn't work >.< was already set at 16 when I opened the icon in control panel.

For those who are saying this fix works: does it continue to work, or does it start happening again after a few hours?

Home Built AMD 64 3800+ Windows XP Pro ATI X800 Pro, Audigy ZS 2

you have just made my day...I tried several suggested fixes for the crappy sound dilemma, and yours was the only one that worked! thanks!

I was experienceing the crackling sound only when I opened another program, or brought another program window in front of iTunes.

It seems to work for now. If the crackilng comes back, I'll repost.

Mine was already set to this but also apple now have this on their support pages
this is it
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93610

I only seem to get the crackleing every now and again. Seems to come and go i dunno why. Not a sound issue because Real player works fine.

Windows XP

My QT setting were the same. (16bit, etc.), but still had crackling/distortion upon playback.

The apple knowledgebase article you mentioned wasn't much help either, as I had NO 3rd pard plug-ins, just iTunes and CIDB.

What fixed my machine was this:

1) Start iTunes.
2) Hit Ctrl AltDel. This bring up Task Manager.
3) Click on the 'Processes' tab and find 'iTunes.exe' in the resulting list.
4) Right-click on it, and go to Set priority, and change to 'Above normal'.

Now, some caveats:

1) This can cause system instabilities, so beware.
2) If you have separate profiles, this needs to be changed in each one.
3) It appears to reset after a full restart.

I should point out that I didn't come up with this, and I can't remember who it was, but I'll find them and give them the kudos deserved.

This is not the solution for me. I'm already set at 16 bit 44.1khz.

I can grab the Itunes window and just drag it around the screen for a few seconds and the crackle becomes permanent. Web browsing, windows sounds, unarchiving files.... all causes it to get jacked up.

I tried all of these & I still have the problem.

I have tried re-intalling Version 7 & it's exactly the same.
Any one got any other suggestions??

Bought my iPod a few weeks ago and started using iTunes. Thought it was all wonderful until iTunes 7 appeared. I'm now getting the same problems as everyone else here. Incidentally, I can't help noticing how many other posts are from newly registered users like myself.

Despite all my drivers and software being up-to-date and despite trying ALL the fixes listed (even Apple's own ideas on the subject: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93610), none of them work permanently.

My old Creative Zen Touch and Windows Media Player combination still work fine. Hmmm...

Come on Apple! This is NOT good enough. Give us an update with the software sorted.


AMD Athlon 3500+ Windows XP 2.20Ghz, 1.5Gb RAM

This is not the solution for me. I'm already set at
16 bit 44.1khz.

I can grab the Itunes window and just drag it around
the screen for a few seconds and the crackle becomes
permanent. Web browsing, windows sounds, unarchiving
files.... all causes it to get jacked up.

That is what mine was set at; I changed the 44.1kHz to 48kHz and them so far to have fixed my problem. Maybe it will work for you also.

No, Switching to 48khz has not fixed this either

One thing I noticed on this install, is that none of the Icons for the shortcuts got loaded. I had to manually set the icons for it. I even did a complete uninstall reinstall and got the same thing. This version is seriously jacked.

I've tried all the suggestions from users and Apple. The problem is better (I get some undistorted playback) but the audio problem inevitably returns.

Can anyone help??????