I had that problem where my mp3 would start playing only after 2-4 seconds.
I found out that the problem is that Itunes totally sucks when it's time to decode a mp3 that was encoded with LAME, I even tried different version, I didn't find any way to decode the mp3 faster.
The only way I did find was to convert again to mp3 using the Itunes encoder, then it would be lightning fast to start a mp3 playback.
If someone has a way to speed up the decoding of an mp3 encoded with LAME in Itunes under mac, please tell me, I would appreciate because I'm not sure I want to convert all of my mp3 collection!!
I have the same freeking problem and what you mentioned about converting the files seems to be my last resort. I might get a converter and just convert all my mp3s to AAC but I just feel like this is what APPLE wants and is kind of wrong. It doesn't seem like it's a coincendence that Amazon is doing so well and when you listen to their songs it puts a folder right into itunes. I feel like they did this on purpose...still have to try different audio card though...i have two
ReplyDeleteI don't think the audio card would change anything.. but please tell me if it does fix something. thanks for commenting
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