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  1. ok its good I can admit discovering my own foolishness -> ignore my previous comments, if you have any discrepancy in the form of a very audible presence difference in volume as I did, then first just make sure your itunes volume slider is at max, ie drag it left then right till it wont go no further, because the button on the slider on mine was at the end of the slider slot - ie no slider slot showing but when I actually grabbed the volume button it slid some pixels further to the right as the button is much wider than the height of the slot and goes beyond the end of the slot at full volume ie make sure its as far right as possible ie as close to the the full speaker icon as possible, obviously as itunes volume max is equal to whatever the volume is currently set to on the volume control F keys on the keyboard. as youd expect, but the finder always plays at the volume as set by the F keys logically, so if you want volume parity of playback between finder and itunes, itunes must be left at maximum and dont let anybody fiddle with it, its a pity it cant be locked ? as I thought it was at max because visually i could see no slider slot visible as it were, and any - even a few pixels from max volume in itunes slider and this difference will be very noticeable, less than the finders apparent volume level since it always plays back at the max of the F keys. it would be good if the itunes volume slider had a padlock icon next to it to lock from being moved. Ommadawn part2 now sounds as it should
  2. well I think it was good speculation because my ears thought they matched maybe its my versions of software, im not upgrading to itunes v11! as I dont like the interface changes, so im using 10.7 itunes still on os x 10.6.8, im just interested to get to the bottom of the differences in sound as its bugging me, if I play file in the finder and itunes they should sound the same by my book, but something is going on.
  3. this guys blog show a way to use afplay through itunes via a script but no time scrubbing Hideki's blog
  4. the finder as you stated does use afplay, because to my ears when rapidly switching they sound identical and the only playback that stands out as worse is … itunes, the question is why does afplay output sound so much better … than itunes ?
  5. OK having checked with m4a uncompressed lossless files, and using the finder, afplay and itunes and a good pair of headphones and here are the results. afplay and finder output have the same levels and quality ie totally identical, so the finder is using afplay. and itunes sounds obviously and noticeably blatently worse ? like i wouldn't even need quality headphones to demo that ? The question is why does it sound so much better and surely what we need is harmonised playback quality across the board, my presumption is that the finder is ramping output and levels / eq, compared to itunes which I have set for flat output ie no EQ or volume increase etc. itunes sounds flatter and worse / lower volume therefore less open compared to the finder playback of the same file, but whichever way its not sensible for playback to sound better in the finder than through itunes ? as its disconcerting for the user discover there music app sounds worse than a finder preview ? this also made me conclude to holding onto some flac files when probably the massive difference with flac in the finder and 192Kbps VBR in itunes was not so much a file quality issue but in fact much more related to how they sound playback wise as engines, its probably that the finders output is tweaked ? but still its makes audio comparisons very hard unless one sticks to either finder output or itunes output ?
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