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MattSuda
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Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

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I suggest that everyone stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 if you want to listen to music in high quality.

 

I have also noticed AirPlay and Bluetooth playback issues as well. (glitching)

 

This is not limited to the Spotify iOS app.

 

I have gotten word from other people and it looks like 3rd party audio apps not made by Apple are having problems with audio.

 

This results in very bad audio. Audio still plays, but is at a very low quality despite what quality you choose is the settings.

Some people might not notice, but there is quite a difference.

 

If you go back to 5.1.1 or iOS 6 beta 3, the sound is back to normal.

 

Hopefully Apple will fix this in the next iOS 6 beta.

 

UPDATE:

 

This bug has been fixed in iOS 6 final release!

I don't have iOS 6 beta 4 to compare, but it sounds normal.

YAY! =)


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xry
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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

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Yeah, noticed this myself. Very annoying, and it's rendering Spotify useless for me since the degraded quality is quite noticeable. Tried streaming from iTunes-app, worked flawlessly. So yeah, Apple screwed up here. Just sucks that they probably won't ship a quick fix, and I know no way on how to downgrade to beta 3. So yeah, audio is probably ruined the next week or two.

 

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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

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It took me a while to downgrade to iOS 6 beta 3. I had to restore from my backup and it took a few hours.

 

I can't believe we are the only ones to notice this! Almost ever iOS 6 beta tester has upgraded.

 

This is a disaster! I hope Apple knows this is a bug. I reported the bug to Apple, but I don't know if I did it correctly. 


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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

SoundHound doesn't seem to have been affected, bizarrely enough... And I don't have any previous images of iOS 6 left, so I'm stuck with Beta 4 (the only one I have is 5.1.1 - gonna try to restore it later today, but suspect it will not work :( ).

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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)


Mattjsrules wrote:

It took me a while to downgrade to iOS 6 beta 3. I had to restore from my backup and it took a few hours.

 

I can't believe we are the only ones to notice this! Almost ever iOS 6 beta tester has upgraded.

 

This is a disaster! I hope Apple knows this is a bug. I reported the bug to Apple, but I don't know if I did it correctly. 


This is why you should stick with trusty Android ;)



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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

Hi guys,

We have actually just released an update for the iOS app today, which should now be compatible with iOS 6. Give it a try!
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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)


Sam wrote:
Hi guys,

We have actually just released an update for the iOS app today, which should now be compatible with iOS 6. Give it a try!

Thanks! The radio is working, but the sound quality is till like it's being played back at 22kHz (all audio frequencies above about 10kHz are cut off).

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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

I can confirm this. Still sounds terrible.

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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

No issue with iOS 6 beta 4 on my iPhone 4, excellent audio in all Apps.

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Re: Stay away from iOS 6 beta 4 (Bad Audio Bug)

Maybe add that it's an iPhone 4S I have. Listening to a song in the iTunes Store compared to both Sync/Stream setting on Excellent, I can hear a great difference in quality.