
The second dropdown is the one I needed to change. I always choose “MP3”, so I’ve done that here. On this dialog, the first dropdown widget lets you choose the “type” of file you want to import. That brings up this dialog:Īs the notes on that image show, first click the “General” button if it isn’t already selected, and then click the “Import Settings” button. First, switch to iTunes, then click “iTunes” in your Mac menu bar, then click “Preferences”.
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The following images show how to do this. As a test, I jacked this up to the maximum - 320 kbps - and the difference was noticeable. I knew I had been using the default setting for MP3 files, which was 128 kbps.

The first thing I did was to dramatically increase the bit rate of the songs that I was importing into iTunes from CDs. If you notice a similar difference, this article might be able to improve your iTunes sound quality. Turn up the volume a little bit, listen to the quality of that song, then play one of your own songs in iTunes on the same computer, and see if there’s a difference.īefore I made the following changes, when I played that song from Bandcamp it sounded like she was in the room with me, but when I played it from iTunes it sounded like she was singing in the closet. It’s the sixth song on the list, it’s free, and it’s also a great song. Test: If you want to hear a high-quality song, go to this Bandcamp URL, and play Marian Call’s song titled “Temporal Dominoes”.

In this article I'll show you how to make those fixes to dramatically increase your iTunes sound/music quality. I dug into the problem and found two simple fixes, both in iTunes. But the songs I streamed from Bandcamp sounded better than the songs I imported from the CD how could this be?

In my case, I recently bought a Marian Call CD named “Something Fierce”, and had imported the songs from that CD into iTunes. It was driving me crazy that the quality of the songs I was streaming from a website known as Bandcamp sounded better than the quality of the songs I was playing from my iTunes collection.
