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Dutchdummy · 26th April 2010, 00:38

I've been having a problem with M4A files sounding pretty awful in Winamp vs. their MP3 counterparts. At first I thought it was an encoding problem, but then I found out that the M4A files only sounded inferior when I played them through Winamp. What I did was to take a lossless file and encode both to MP3 and M4A, then play them in various media players. Each time, Winamp was the only one in which I noticed a marked difference, with the M4A file sounding very muffled.

Has anyone else had this problem?

26th April 2010, 00:38	#1
Dutchdummy Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 3	M4A files sound worse than MP3 in Winamp I've been having a problem with M4A files sounding pretty awful in Winamp vs. their MP3 counterparts. At first I thought it was an encoding problem, but then I found out that the M4A files only sounded inferior when I played them through Winamp. What I did was to take a lossless file and encode both to MP3 and M4A, then play them in various media players. Each time, Winamp was the only one in which I noticed a marked difference, with the M4A file sounding very muffled. Has anyone else had this problem?