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iTunes 10.5 on Windows XP

I'm seeing lots of reports of people still on Windows XP having major issues with iTunes 10.5 (their music is clipping / weird "robotic" sounding artifacts, etc). Anyone out there in gdgtland having this problem, or know what causes it?
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DrGeeks

Yes, I'm having problems too and spent two days working on it. There is a long discussion on the Apple support site at https:­/­/discussions.apple.com­/message­/16422508­#164.... There is some indication hat it only affects mp3's in iTunes on XP with AMD processors. The music is not corrupt but there is an incompatibility in the codec. It plays fine on other software, even the Quicktime player.

If you want to sync with an IOS 5 device then you have to have iTunes 10.5, otherwise you can roll back to an earlier version, but lose the ability to sync with IOS 5 devices.
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idl3mind

Try disabling Sound Enhancer and Crossfade.
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rylab

iTunes on Windows has ALWAYS sucked, it's not limited to the latest update. Its UI is laggy (borderline completely unresponsive most of the time) and randomly just plain doesn't play stuff unless you restart it. Since I'm normally a Mac guy it was one of the first things I installed when I had to use a Windows box, but eventually gave up and used Media Player since iTunes on Windows is so horrid.
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mantis

Listening to the TRON: Legacy soundtrack? No issues here.
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BaldWombat

It won't let me upgrade to 10.5 with Windows XP.
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all4me2be

Maybe it's a hardware problem? Might be possible that iTunes 10.5 may not be completely compatible with Windows XP + some (random or specific?) configuration in the machine.
Just thinking out loud...
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rustyknife

Only effects mp3, not AAC files, apparently due to a different mp3 codec being used or summit. I have the issue and it seems very wide spread
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hyperhack

Have not yet listened to music on 10.5 but I do seem to be having syncing issues. I was able to initially sync after ios 5 update but now am having trouble.
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Jehu

I have Windows XP and I haven't experienced any issues.
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scottgholmes

Nope but I have Win7 and found that iTunes 10.5 and the new iPOD 1.2 OS have some odd quirks... every time the iPod screen/power saver the iPod (Nano) shuts off. Any ideas?
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jkrg

Definitely an issue for Windows XP users with AMD chipset. Playback of mp3 files is terribly distorted, m4a files play fine. Apple tech support person I spoke to said were working on a fix, but iTunes feedback person says his "research" showed no problem (even though it's all over the Apple Support Communities discussions. No timeline for fix, no mention of the problem on the iTunes product pages.
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ShempLabs

I haven't had any problems with iTunes on the XP machine, although I confess to being nervous every time there's another update. At some point, I'm sure that there will be problems.
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