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The Guardian - UK
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Jack Schofield

Out of tune iTunes on Windows -- playback is distorted

We've just downloaded the most up-to-date version of iTunes to our Dell PC with XP SP2 and now sound is distorted. Sarah Morgan

Apple's site has a very long discussion, Fix for distorted sound in iTunes ver 7.0, which started in 2006. An approach that worked for some people is to change the iTunes settings to 16-bit sound and 48 kHz or less. Other suggestions are to turn off all the enhancements and set the buffer size to Large (Edit, Preferences, Advanced). An older and shorter discussion, iTunes sounds funny, suggests switching iTunes' sound playback from QuickTime to Windows.

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