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Morning all
Sooooooooooo , after putting some of my favorite music on my DHD last night, packed my Sony BIN headphones and set off this morning , only to discover the stock MP3 player is rubbish ! , no volume or anything.
Any suggestions which one is best to use ?
Thanks
Steve
My suggestion would be PlayerPro. After trying many, this has everything I ever wanted from a music player.
thank you for the quick response
That one costs money though
Any good free ones ?
DoubleTwist seems to be the best right now.
Tried , and its great thanks .....
Is there anything I can do to increase the volume ?
It seems so low , even at top media volume
Thanks
Steve
Most custom ROMs have volume enhancements on them, but if you don't want to go down that road and are already running a Gingerbread ROM, then try an app called Volume+ from the market. If you're on Froyo, there is DSP Manager but personally I don't recommend it.
DoubleTwist is a rather complete player. Try it out.
I'd suggest Double Twist or this https://market.android.com/details?id=org.abrantix.rockon.rockonnggl&feature=more_from_developer
Lovly ta
Yep, doubletwist is good, no question there. It's just that since I'm kind of a neat freak when it comes to folder structures with my music, I really appreciate the option to browse by folders; something most players seem to lack. I also liked the album wall display of playerpro, but of course as you said its not free.
Bought PlayerPro also. If you listen to music alot, its really worth it^^ Also theres an option that you can skip songs with volume buttons, thats a great feature in some situations.
Thats all great thanks , but the volume is still low , is there anyway I can increase the headphone volume of MP3's ?
Thanks
Steve
See my post on the previous page, it has some tips to help with your volume issue
DroidXero said:
See my post on the previous page, it has some tips to help with your volume issue
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Hi, thanks ..... I have installed the volume+ app or at least I think its the right one.
And it dosnt let me make it any louder than the top media volume ...
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
Steve
Double Twist is great and works
Custom Roms should help with volume (have a look at my sig)
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sbsshadow said:
Hi, thanks ..... I have installed the volume+ app or at least I think its the right one.
And it dosnt let me make it any louder than the top media volume ...
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
Steve
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If you downloaded it from the Market and it's called 'Volume+' then you have the right one, but it only works on Gingerbread. When you run the app you have the options of applying volume gain to the speaker or headphone output, and you can also change the EQ. There's a Bass Enhancement option too, but I've never known it make any difference.
Give PowerAMP a shot if you want to browse by folder. There's a trial version on the market. Best player I've seen.
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If you downloaded it from the Market and it's called 'Volume+' then you have the right one, but it only works on Gingerbread. When you run the app you have the options of applying volume gain to the speaker or headphone output, and you can also change the EQ. There's a Bass Enhancement option too, but I've never known it make any difference.
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Oh ....... the one I downloaded was Volume Plus, not Volume +
I see its £0.99 , I know its not much but I havnt got a card to pay it with at the moment ..
Is there a free version anywhere ?
Thanks all
Steve
There's no free version unfortunately, but £0.99 is more than a fair price to pay for it if you can convince someone to lend you their card
Someone mentioned PowerAMP earlier. That app has an in built equalizer and some of the presets on that make the volume a bit louder, though if you're playing music for a long period of time then this will take a toll on battery life.
DroidX 2.3.3 - Rooted via Pete's - LauncherPro
I bought EQUALIZER from SmartAndroidApps, and POWERAMP from MaxMP. Both do well with media audio, but neither can manipulate the telephone audio stream.
I'm hard of hearing, and would like to control telephone audio from the speaker. My current solution is external, using earbuds with a lump in the cable that houses a passive RC circuit to approximate the curve I need.
Is there an EQ app or method to do that internally, so I can use the speakerphone?
There once was a flashable zip called turn it to eleven that allowed you to exceed normal volume levels... maybe look around for that or something like it... if you are not rooted I don't think there are any options...
SGT+CM7=AWESOMENESS!!!
DSP manager came with cm7 and it works pretty good for me.
DX+CM7
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DSP manager came with cm7 and it works pretty good for me.
DX+CM7
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Works good for me on my x running CM7 too, however even at the loudest setting my ringtones still aren't more than 1 or 2 decibels louder than stock... wonder if there is a way to really increase volume?....
SGT+CM7= :-D
Poweramp app has a great one in its player idk if you can use it without using the player. It even has a pre amp.
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hootowlserenade said:
Works good for me on my x running CM7 too, however even at the loudest setting my ringtones still aren't more than 1 or 2 decibels louder than stock... wonder if there is a way to really increase volume?....
SGT+CM7= :-D
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Tried amplifying the sounds with something like wave pad or MP3 gain, then putting them back?
I always amplify mine with wave pad, then put them in the media folder of my sd card, that way I don't have to use root explorer every time to put them back in system sounds whenever I flash another nightly.
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Tried amplifying the sounds with something like wave pad or MP3 gain, then putting them back?
DX+CM7
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Maybe I can do something like that... I'll look and see if I can find where the tunes are stored, maybe use root explorer to modify them, or something like that... I'll check around the forums a bit and see how to do that
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Maybe I can do something like that... I'll look and see if I can find where the tunes are stored, maybe use root explorer to modify them, or something like that... I'll check around the forums a bit and see how to do that
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Are they actual system sounds, or your own ringtones?
DX+CM7
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Are they actual system sounds, or your own ringtones?
DX+CM7
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System sounds
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System sounds
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using root explorer, they are in system/media/audio/ringtones. They are .ogg. You may have to convert them before amplifying them. I would rename them and put them on the sd card, in media/audio/ringtones. Wave pad may convert them, or free make. Both are free. Good luck, let me know how it goes, any questions just ask.
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using root explorer, they are in system/media/audio/ringtones. They are .ogg. You may have to convert them before amplifying them. I would rename them and put them on the sd card, in media/audio/ringtones. Wave pad may convert them, or free make. Both are free. Good luck, let me know how it goes, any questions just ask.
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Very cool I see the alarm tones too maybe now I'll actually hear the alarm going off... gonna copy these to sd and try to convert, increase volume, reconvert and save back into root explorer... wonder if I'll have to do this after each nightly? One way to find out.... after I suceed I will keep a copy of files on sd card just in case and I'll flash a nightly and see if it overwrites the files... will report back
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Very cool I see the alarm tones too maybe now I'll actually hear the alarm going off... gonna copy these to sd and try to convert, increase volume, reconvert and save back into root explorer... wonder if I'll have to do this after each nightly? One way to find out.... after I suceed I will keep a copy of files on sd card just in case and I'll flash a nightly and see if it overwrites the files... will report back
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Flashing nightly should overwrite them, I know it did with my ringtones, that's why I started just putting them on the sd. Overwrites boot animation too, I gave up on changing that every time.
DX+CM7
What I really need is to apply EQ to telephone (incoming voice) audio.
I can do it externally via the 3.5mm audio jack, using an active equalizer. Bulky. It would be great to do it inside the phone.
Phone Audio Equalizer
i would highly recomend the dsp manager because it equalizes your application and music audio output, your speaker output , and you can control bluetooth settings as well. I personally think its better than any of the paid apps that you can get. i also dont get why someone hasnt posted a link for thDSPManager.apk but i will post one for you and everyone else.
Dropbox link:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66547183/DSPManager.apk
Best of luck,
TheBookheimer
Droid X Miui 2012.2.1, V6 Supercharged, Beats Audio
TheBookheimer said:
i would highly recomend the dsp manager because it equalizes your application and music audio output, your speaker output , and you can control bluetooth settings as well. I personally think its better than any of the paid apps that you can get. i also dont get why someone hasnt posted a link for thDSPManager.apk but i will post one for you and everyone else.
Best of luck,
TheBookheimer
Droid X Miui 2012.2.1, V6 Supercharged, Beats Audio
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DSP Manager force closes sometimes when I get a call.
Anyone tried volume+?
Has anyone used it on their Note 3 yet?
i hate the audio with a passion thru the external speaker, DSP is my only hope..
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Has anyone used it on their Note 3 yet?
i hate the audio with a passion thru the external speaker, DSP is my only hope..
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I gave up on DSP Manager after it never seemed to play music via the right profile (eg, bluetooth headphones would often be played with the "speaker" profile, or other shenanigans)
Then I discovered Vipers Audio! And never looked back... (I have this running on my Note 3)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
bakachu said:
I gave up on DSP Manager after it never seemed to play music via the right profile (eg, bluetooth headphones would often be played with the "speaker" profile, or other shenanigans)
Then I discovered Vipers Audio! And never looked back... (I have this running on my Note 3)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
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Wow thanks for the prompt reply dude. I agree Dsp isn't perfect, but it would help compared to stock, it's really awful imo.
So, in your experience has Viper improved the external speaker experience? I'm not so fussed with the 3.5, it's the external sounds that are bugging me.
Thanks
JCM800 said:
Wow thanks for the prompt reply dude. I agree Dsp isn't perfect, but it would help compared to stock, it's really awful imo.
So, in your experience has Viper improved the external speaker experience? I'm not so fussed with the 3.5, it's the external sounds that are bugging me.
Thanks
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I haven't used it for the external speaker (but it supports this, just as DSP Manager does), but I don't think you'll be disappointed if you were to try it.
FYI: I use the "Lock effect mode" to force my Bluetooth audio profile onto all audio outputs, works a charm.
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I haven't used it for the external speaker (but it supports this, just as DSP Manager does), but I don't think you'll be disappointed if you were to try it.
FYI: I use the "Lock effect mode" to force my Bluetooth audio profile onto all audio outputs, works a charm.
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This could be what I'm looking for, but I'm still relatively new to flashing etc, seems a bit daunting, the installation process? I take it you need to be rooted?
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This could be what I'm looking for, but I'm still relatively new to flashing etc, seems a bit daunting, the installation process? I take it you need to be rooted?
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Yes, you need root to complete the install. It goes something like this: install it like a normal APK, open it, it will ask for root privs, once granted, it will autoinstall the audio driver, and then all you need to do is restart. Job done!
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Yes, you need root to complete the install. It goes something like this: install it like a normal APK, open it, it will ask for root privs, once granted, it will autoinstall the audio driver, and then all you need to do is restart. Job done!
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Thanks, this could be the key to make me love my Note 3. I need to root it first, then I'll look at tackling the installation in near future, thanks for replying, appreciate it
Just a thought tho - the Note 3 external driver is small, doesn't it distort easily driving bassy beats?
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Yes, you need root to complete the install. It goes something like this: install it like a normal APK, open it, it will ask for root privs, once granted, it will autoinstall the audio driver, and then all you need to do is restart. Job done!
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Pmd you
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So just to clarify, if i root, and install this - will I lose ota software updates from Samsung , or do you only lose them when flashing a custom Rom? Thanks.
bakachu said:
I gave up on DSP Manager after it never seemed to play music via the right profile (eg, bluetooth headphones would often be played with the "speaker" profile, or other shenanigans)
Then I discovered Vipers Audio! And never looked back... (I have this running on my Note 3)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
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Ringtone, notifications, system audio viper fx is ok but
Dont work with poweramp or samsung music player, know why? Thanks!
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bakachu said:
I gave up on DSP Manager after it never seemed to play music via the right profile (eg, bluetooth headphones would often be played with the "speaker" profile, or other shenanigans)
Then I discovered Vipers Audio! And never looked back... (I have this running on my Note 3)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
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Hi, is it possible to make screenshots of your Viper4Android Settings!? Or upload your saved profile for testing!?
akelon said:
Ringtone, notifications, system audio viper fx is ok but
Dont work with poweramp or samsung music player, know why? Thanks!
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This post seems to have some tips and tricks to try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2203255
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Hi, is it possible to make screenshots of your Viper4Android Settings!? Or upload your saved profile for testing!?
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Yeah, heres my profile I use: *lots* of bass via the Dynamic Subsystem module, EQ that brings out the highs, and the "Extreme Headphone V1" listening device.
The profile files go under your SD Card under the viper4android/profiles directory (if the folder doesn't exist, try saving a profile first to autocreate it)
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Yeah, heres my profile I use: *lots* of bass via the Dynamic Subsystem module, EQ that brings out the highs, and the "Extreme Headphone V1" listening device.
The profile files go under your SD Card under the viper4android/profiles directory (if the folder doesn't exist, try saving a profile first to autocreate it)
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Many THX for this, i will try!
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Many THX for this, i will try!
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Are you trying this on a note 3 SD800 at all?
I'm concerned the small external speaker may distort easily?
JCM800 said:
Are you trying this on a note 3 SD800 at all?
I'm concerned the small external speaker may distort easily?
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Could be, i will try later on after work! BR Petteri
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Could be, i will try later on after work! BR Petteri
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Ok great, please post your findings. I'd like to try it on mine, but am not familiar with installing APK files etc at the moment. Or which is the best rooting method for the N3
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Just a thought tho - the Note 3 external driver is small, doesn't it distort easily driving bassy beats?
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Dude.....seriously?
Bass is driven by the amount of air the driver can push - Base is omni-directional (i.e.you feel it rather than hearing where it's coming from) so it doesn't really matter where you put your bass unit from a surround sound setup.
If you think the external speaker is going to give ANY sort of bass, you're seriously misguided, sorry!
If the frequency is too low then the unit just won't play it, that's why speakers have a frequency range.
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Dude.....seriously?
Bass is driven by the amount of air the driver can push - Base is omni-directional (i.e.you feel it rather than hearing where it's coming from) so it doesn't really matter where you put your bass unit from a surround sound setup.
If you think the external speaker is going to give ANY sort of bass, you're seriously misguided, sorry!
If the frequency is too low then the unit just won't play it, that's why speakers have a frequency range.
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Why thanks very much, no need to be patronising, but yeah you made sense, thanks all the same.
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Why thanks very much, no need to be patronising, but yeah you made sense, thanks all the same.
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Yeah, my bad, sorry buddy.
Been ill the last 4 days and supposed to be flying to the states tomorrow for 9 days holiday! bit P******d about it.
But you're right, I should have toned it down.
Ignore the first line of my reply above, and it reads a bit nicer
hello,
i've searched now for a while and could not find a solution for this problem:
on my device (and this was the same with my note2) and on stock kernels i could not get the equalizer function properly.
the stock equalizer does not alter the sound in the right way, in fact it makes it LESS "loud" on the opposite frequencies i want to adjust.
example: if i want to add heights the bass goes down significantly, but no hights are added. same for adding bass: the heigts go down, but the bass level did not increase. if i turn the EQ off, the sound get much louder then, although i adjusted the typically "U" formed curve!
as far as my search showed this is a problem for other people as well, here in the note3 forum there are almost no postings regarding this.
is your EQ working as expected?
what apps do you use? stock music player or something different? i use google play music, but its the same for other apps as well.
even tried to remove all other music apps (as suggested in some postings) due to possible conflicts, but this wont help! i also installed a different equalizer app (and removed the stock one, after only disabling it) from the market, same results.
on my note2 i had the same issue, the only thing which helped was to flash a custom kernel. with this i was able to use equalizers the way they were meant!
does someone has some experience here?
regards,
markus
TML1504 said:
hello,
i've searched now for a while and could not find a solution for this problem:
on my device (and this was the same with my note2) and on stock kernels i could not get the equalizer function properly.
the stock equalizer does not alter the sound in the right way, in fact it makes it LESS "loud" on the opposite frequencies i want to adjust.
example: if i want to add heights the bass goes down significantly, but no hights are added. same for adding bass: the heigts go down, but the bass level did not increase. if i turn the EQ off, the sound get much louder then, although i adjusted the typically "U" formed curve!
as far as my search showed this is a problem for other people as well, here in the note3 forum there are almost no postings regarding this.
is your EQ working as expected?
what apps do you use? stock music player or something different? i use google play music, but its the same for other apps as well.
even tried to remove all other music apps (as suggested in some postings) due to possible conflicts, but this wont help! i also installed a different equalizer app (and removed the stock one, after only disabling it) from the market, same results.
on my note2 i had the same issue, the only thing which helped was to flash a custom kernel. with this i was able to use equalizers the way they were meant!
does someone has some experience here?
regards,
markus
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i use poweramp and have no problem ,was using faux kernel with fauxsound app sound was excellent, but with firmware update faux kernel the camera is not working so im on stock kernel but poweramp is still working ok with good bass
jaythenut said:
i use poweramp and have no problem ,was using faux kernel with fauxsound app sound was excellent, but with firmware update faux kernel the camera is not working so im on stock kernel but poweramp is still working ok with good bass
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thx for the answer,
i used poweramp for years, and it did me an excellent job! but for convenience i switched to google play some time ago, and since then i have this equalizer problem with samsung stock kernels! if i remember right this is since the introduction of 4.0 or 4.1!
because of my migration to google play i would need a solution how to get the equalizer right, and i'm curious if other people have the same problem! and: if someone managed to get it work!
I would try ViPER4Android
Thread (very overwhelming):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
designgears said:
I would try ViPER4Android
Thread (very overwhelming):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
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thx, you are my hero!!!
problem solved, VIPER4A is really brilliant!!!
and most important: IT WORKS!!!
guys, try this, the sound improves a lot!!!
TML1504 said:
thx, you are my hero!!!
problem solved, VIPER4A is really brilliant!!!
and most important: IT WORKS!!!
guys, try this, the sound improves a lot!!!
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Now I know this is many years old, but I see from your sig you have an S8+ now. Do you still have this issue with the stock EQ? I'm getting exactly the same behaviour with the S8+ and the S9+, turning any slider up just seems to cut the entire volume down, it's so annoying!
if you have root you can enable the music channel by editing the default.xml. Using a file explorer navigate through system/customize/aac to default xml and incase your rom doesn't use default.xml, edit the one with your cid, scroll right to the bottom of the default .xml, in that area you will see a line, support_music_channel">false ...change it to true, save, reboot. In settings there should be an option for music channel, now, I donot know if it works without harmon kardon so some feedback would be good from someone using stock adsp.img with boomsound, I cant see why it wont work. Give a try and post your results. Play a song in any music app (supposedly), if music channel is enabled there will be a notification pop up, open the notification draw and tap music channel, you will have access to visualizations and gracenote and an update function for music lryics, I actually think its awesome and don't know why its been disabled.
Thanks for the tip! Just got this working on mt ATT One M8 running nV Rom. It took me a while to get the default.xml to actually save my edits, but what I ended up doing was rebooting to TWRP recovery, mounting /system and using the console to pull up vi and edit the file. Was a bit of a pain, but it looks awesome!
Works great thanks! It was very easy to do. I just edited the file with x-plore and then I changed the permissions back, rebooted and it worked. Btw it worked with BoomSound!
Cool ...nice to hear it works for boomsound aswell, why HTC disabled it is beyond me, the option itself works fine, its gracenotes database that seems to be a bit dodgy, they don't have enough information for lryics, seems its just the most popular albums/tracks, most of the stuff I listen to cant get the lryics, like metric and feedme, think its mainly charts.
Tty and hearing aid enhancement also works ....just enable in default.XML, there's loads of features turned off, these 2 modes are very much needed, well. I can say for sure hearing aid enhancement would be much needed by ppl.
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I have this 'ACC' folder not system/customize/aac... is it the same?
EDIT: NVM got it...
cheers for that, why that isnt there by default is beyond me, awesome. im running stock aswell
So what is music channel and what does it do for me. I enabled it and don't see any difference so far. Thanks though.
Kane5581 said:
So what is music channel and what does it do for me. I enabled it and don't see any difference so far. Thanks though.
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Play some music, if its working properly an icon will pop up in notification draw, open the draw click on music channel and see. It suppsed to detect any music player but I expect theres limitations, works on googleplay and stock ...not tried any other, htc's music player as got a cropped down version of the music channel tied only the that app, this one should be global.
Now that I'm back stock (but still S-Off), can i get this to work?
Before stock, i tried Viper Rom, and this Rom has the channel enabled...
This is rad! Such a fail on their part for having this defaulted to off. I tried it with Google play music and spotify and it worked no problem. I used root explorer to change everything needed and took two seconds. Thank you soooo much!!!!
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Now that I'm back stock (but still S-Off), can i get this to work?
Before stock, i tried Viper Rom, and this Rom has the channel enabled...
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Yes, will work on stock, its part of htc's rom, its installed because there music app uses it, but htc disabled the global use.
Just enabled it for ARHD 10.2. Fantastic! Thank you!
i have a line for "support_music_ringtone", another line in the same area for "support_outdoor_mode"... nothing that says "support_music_channel" though... any ideas?
For people who cannot get the Lyrics to work it is due to Gracenote country restrictions.
If you cannot get lyrics for music , download any VPN app and browse as a US user.
I personally prefer Tunnelbear.
then after you turn it on go to the music channel , click the menu button then update lyrics..wait a couple of seconds and your lyrics will be there.
I only needed to do this once..it is working now even after i turned VPN off.
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i have a line for "support_music_ringtone", another line in the same area for "support_outdoor_mode"... nothing that says "support_music_channel" though... any ideas?
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It's all the way at the bottom, about a half dozen or so lines up.
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This feature is already there just no such special dedicate button popup at notification.
During playback of song, scroll to right at main music player (from now playing to visualizer) and you will get the exact same thing.
Andrewtst said:
This feature is already there just no such special dedicate button popup at notification.
During playback of song, scroll to right at main music player (from now playing to visualizer) and you will get the exact same thing.
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Htc's music visualizer's not global/system wide, as wrote above, its in the htc music app but htc disabled it for use on other music apps, It also has its own play/stop/skip buttons in full screen plus, I think it enables a few more visuals but not 100% on that as I never looked in the music app, if someone wants to look before they enable it and give feedback ..that would be great.
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Its not global/system wide, as wrote above, its in the htc music app but htc disabled it for use on other music apps.
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Oh others music apps. That I didn't use others apps.
But for HTC own apps, it is there.
I'm using it now with Amazon Prime. Is there a way to turn off the lyrics and just have the visualizations?