How much better depends on your source material. I can say that BitPerfect will make your music sound better. I bought it late last year and have used is almost every day when listening to iTunes. I highly recommend reading it before buying.
#AUDIO PLAYER FOR OSX MANUAL#
Tim has also written an extremely helpful manual that explains in detail what I am purposefully glossing over. The point though, is that you don’t have to do anything once installed. However, if you are curious and adventurous, the app allows almost infinite variations.
#AUDIO PLAYER FOR OSX INSTALL#
Once you install it, you can forget that it’s there.īitPerfect performs a lot of complicated maneuvers behind the scenes to improve the sound right out of the box. There are other programs that improve the audio quality of iTunes, but they completely take over the player and are prohibitively expensive. Tim wasn’t satisfied with what he heard, so he developed BitPerfect. Tim Murison has singlehandedly done what Apple has so far refused to do: make iTunes sound better. If you’re eyes are beginning to glaze over right about now, what this simply means is that the higher the number, the more music you can hear with less distortion. I mean files that are at the very least, 256k AAC from iTunes on up to really high res 96khz/24 bit files.
When I say high res, I am not talking about 128k MP3 files ripped from CDs, bought from iTunes or “ahem,” acquired online. One of the fun ways to improve your audio is to increase the bitrate of your music (called upsampling) or just start with higher resolution (high res) files. I’m just trying to provide a little educational nudge towards improving audio.
There are other very good audiophile sites where you can get as much info as you could ever want. It’s called BitPerfect and it costs a whopping $5 in the Mac App store.īefore I go further, let me state that The Gadgeteer is not an audiophile site, and I am not going to get into charts or esoteric terms to show off. If you listen to music on a Mac (sorry, no Windows yet), and use iTunes, there is an app/plugin that can increase the resolution – and quality – of your music. As it turns out, there is a way to improve audio quality a bit without breaking the bank, or even denting it.
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