Apple Releases iTunes 10.5.2 with iTunes Match and Audio Distortion Fixes

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Apple today released iTunes 10.5.2, an update bringing improvements to iTunes Match and fixes for an audio distortion issue experienced with certain CDs.

About iTunes 10.5.2

iTunes 10.5.2 includes several improvements for iTunes Match and fixes an audio distortion problem when playing or importing certain CDs.

The download is currently available via Apple's downloads page and the dedicated iTunes download page. It should begin rolling out to Software Update shortly. The full download weighs in at 102 MB for Mac, 66.13 MB for 32-bit Windows, and 68.01 MB for 64-bit Windows.

Apple launched iTunes Match in the United States with the release of iTunes 10.5.1 in mid-November.

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Top Rated Comments

JangoFett124 Avatar
161 months ago
It's only 16.6 MB for me through software update.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JQW Avatar
161 months ago
What error about importing CDs ? I've just imported several CDs from my collection but I haven't heard anything disturbing..not that I was paying attention

The problem only affected CDs encoded with Pre-emphasis. Pre-emphasis encoded CDs have high frequencies boosted to some extent, and need them to be reduced after ripping. Pre-emphasis supposedly provides a better noise-floor than normal CDs, but is only of a benefit to music with a large dynamic range.

It seems that the software component of iTunes that implemented the equalisation curve developed a fault as of iTunes 10.5, producing heavily distorted discs.

Very few CDs these days are encoded with pre-emphasis - limited mainly to some independent classical labels, such as BIS and the discs provided with the BBC Music Magazine. In the past, though, it was more common, particularly with CDs pressed in Japan.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
lithomangcc Avatar
161 months ago
It has never ceased to amaze me that Apple iTunes updates are not only incredibly bloated (100MB for a few fixes), but that they are almost twice the size of their Windows equivalent.
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Apple is total crap when it comes to partial updating of their software. Sure it is simpler to just make everyone download another 100MB file, but is 100MB really necessary for a few bug fixes?


Software update was 16MB don't know what you are talking about.
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
QuarterSwede Avatar
161 months ago
It's only 16.6 MB for me through software update.
If you get it from Apple.com/iTunes then it'll be 100MB+ because it's a Universal app and the full download as they're assuming you don't have it.

If you get it from Software Update on Lion it's the delta and only 16.6MB.



If you get it from Software Update on Leopard (PPC) it's 79.0MB. I would assume that's the full PPC version.



While that's certainly better I still don't understand why it's not in the App Store yet.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Amazing Iceman Avatar
161 months ago
It has never ceased to amaze me that Apple iTunes updates are not only incredibly bloated (100MB for a few fixes), but that they are almost twice the size of their Windows equivalent.

What does this tell us? Two things:

1. Apple is total crap when it comes to partial updating of their software. Sure it is simpler to just make everyone download another 100MB file, but is 100MB really necessary for a few bug fixes?

2. Mac software is bloated compared to Windows, even after they have made a new GUI set for Windows to give it the Mac look. In this vein I should add that Apple insult Windows users by forcing their UI upon Windows users (imagine if MS Office looked like Windows 7 on a Mac).
Sorry, but you are completely wrong:

1. This package is a full install package, not an incremental update.

2. The reason why is large is because the package bundles both the PowerPC and Intel versions of the App.
Otherwise it would be about the same size of the windows package, even smaller as most Mac OS X apps don't require a special installer program like Windows programs do.


I don't understand why you would what could have been a good post, talking non-sense; but hey, everyone has the right to give their opinion. The problem is that your comment is making you look really bad.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
yly3 Avatar
161 months ago
What error about importing CDs ? I've just imported several CDs from my collection but I haven't heard anything disturbing..not that I was paying attention
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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