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Operating Systems => macOS => Topic started by: sjor on 24 February 2006, 18:10

Title: iTunes 1billion
Post by: sjor on 24 February 2006, 18:10

We all knew it was gonna happen!  :D

iTunes 1 Billion (http://www.apple.com/itunes/1billion)

Title: Re: iTunes 1billion
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 24 February 2006, 20:05

From my personal experience with iTunes ... it blows. I mean I downloaded this song and it has all this non-random noise in the background, which is not there in the original song. It was something like an oscillating white noise kinda sound. No it was not my speaker or my codecs, cuz all my other music (not from iTunes) played just fine. I had to fix it myself with Audacity's remove noise feature, which took a while, but worked surprisingly well. But really, they should work on improving their music quality. Maybe use flac instead of mp4 ?

Title: Re: iTunes 1billion
Post by: Lead Head on 24 February 2006, 20:38

.ogg is beter :p

Title: Re: iTunes 1billion
Post by: WMD on 24 February 2006, 21:32

Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H

From my personal experience with iTunes ... it blows. I mean I downloaded this song and it has all this non-random noise in the background, which is not there in the original song. It was something like an oscillating white noise kinda sound. No it was not my speaker or my codecs, cuz all my other music (not from iTunes) played just fine. I had to fix it myself with Audacity's remove noise feature, which took a while, but worked surprisingly well. But really, they should work on improving their music quality. Maybe use flac instead of mp4 ?

Well, everything I've downloaded from them sounds fine, which is 4 free songs.  Rather, it sounds as good as 128kbps AAC can.  Typically I use 160kbps or 192kbps VBR in AAC, for my CD ripping.  But 128 usually sounds ok, if a bit dry.

As for noise removal...I guess you decrypted the song, eh?  Either that or you're making the story up ;)

And they won't be using flac anytime soon.  It's lossless.  The most they'll do is use a higher bitrate of mp4, which would be fine.

Title: Re: iTunes 1billion
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 24 February 2006, 22:07

I'm not making it up ... but maybe it was just 1 song ? The exact song that I wanted to download ?

Title: Re: iTunes 1billion
Post by: WMD on 24 February 2006, 22:58

It's possible.  Some songs don't respond well to compression.  Not only that, but the entire classical genre is rather pointless at 128kbps.  Funny that they have any of that at iTMS.

Title: Re: iTunes 1billion
Post by: noob on 24 February 2006, 23:06

iTunes, 79p a track. I pay that an album, legally (afaik).

Title: Re: iTunes 1billion
Post by: Jack2000 on 25 February 2006, 16:23

legally downloaded !??
muhahah they are killing me !
i mean MAN ! ....
freaks :P