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In Reply to: RE: Sampling Rate to Choose in Audio Midi Settings in Mac. posted by flatmap on November 01, 2009 at 09:12:59
Flatmap,
That is what I was thinking. I need to test if I can hear it. Thank you. My DAC will show the sample rate as whatever Audio Midi is set for. But,,I assume I tunes needs to be restarted after each AM change in SR. I wonder if this is true in the latest release of Snow Leopard or the new iTunes updates (one just last night).
Not to sound distrustful but can anyone confirm if this is true 100%? I will try to confirm it audibly tonight.
In a 9/12/09 post on Apple's "Core Audio API" discussion list, an Apple programmer on the iTunes team confirmed that the need to quit and relaunch iTunes when you change the sample rate is a bug in iTunes itself and has nothing to do with which version of OS X you use. He said that iTunes 9.0 did not address this bug, and that he was not permitted to disclose when they expected to get around to fixing it.
Bob,
Thanks. I just found an old post on AA referring to a Stereophile Article that explains it very well. Now I am clear. It is a PITA.
Yep, it's a PITA.
It's interesting from an engineering point of view as their perspective is something like: "Why should any application running on the computer have special access to the hardware settings? All applications can access to this hardware and, what do you want, for one application to lock out all other apps?"
Of course this "no application is special" perspective is logical for a general purpose computing device. Equally natural is that those of us who use our computers as the source for music playback really do want our music player to have special rights to the hardware settings.
So I think the right kind of solution here is to have another setting in iTunes -- something like "Let me takeover Audio Midi" and other applications (like the new email message sound in your email client) would just have to be satisfied with whatever iTunes does.
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