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Tweak Playback Quality On Android With The Sleek Music Equalizer

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Over the years, smartphones have vastly improved in pretty much every aspect. They now have better cameras, more vivid displays, sturdy yet aesthetically pleasing build quality, enhanced audio output and better connectivity options, in addition to more powerful processors and large amounts of RAM & storage. When it comes to audio, many people now use their smartphones to listen to music from cloud-based music streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. That said, smartphones have almost replaced dedicated portable audio players as well, that once used to dominate the market. While the sound quality varies from one device to device, and purportedly depends on how expensive your phone is, there are certain apps that can spice up the sound output through software equalization. One such free app for Android that we stumbled upon is Music Equalizer. The application is fairly powerful, and comes with quite a few different presets from various music genres. Read More

Get An Equalizer In The Stock iPhone Music App With ipEQ

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It is no big deal for a third-party iOS music player to offer ton of options or let you apply filters to tracks in your personal collection, because most people end up sticking with stock apps on their iPhone since they are generally much easier to use and play nice with the entire system. So, it is always great if a way of enhancing existing iPhone apps comes along. This usually happens thanks to the Cydia store, since Apple is not likely to ever allow an App Store release to make changes to a native iOS feature or app. We have seen some pretty decent tweaks dealing with the stock Music app in the past, but ipEQ might be the most exciting of the lot. This new Cydia tweak adds a collection of sound filters to the iPhone Music app, letting you listen to your favorite songs with a twist. Read More

LuminousPlayer Brings New Effects & Equalizers To Your iPhone’s Music Library

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Like most of the stock apps for iOS, the Music app is rather simple in its design. In fact, you have to go to the Settings app if you want to perform as simple a task as applying equalizer presets to songs in your library. In addition to that, the music player for iPhone isn’t very customizable (unless the user has got a jailbroken iDevice). There are many third-party apps available for iOS that are intended to be used as a complete replacement for the stock Music app, but usually, they lack the ease of use and simplicity that users absolutely adore. LuminousPlayer is an app for iPhone that provides a perfect combination of customizability and simplicity regarding music in iOS. The app doesn’t come with too many confusing options, but still has enough to beat the stock Music app. You can apply a bunch of really cool equalizer presets and effects to the tracks on your iDevice, and that, too, without even having to import the music library separately to the app. Details past the jump. Read More

Audio Pitch & Shift: Add Effects To Songs, Change Their Pitch & Playback Speed

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Last month, we covered BPMinus, an application for Windows that allows you to play and control the speed of music tracks while maintaining their pitch, as well as the sound quality. Even though BPMinus performed excellent in our testing, there was still some change in pitch while manipulating the track speed (the app advertised being able to change all parameters in isolation). Today, we have an open source application called Audio Pitch & Shift, made for the same purpose of changing the pitch and playback speed of songs, but it performs the required function better than a lot of the software currently in the market. When you are changing the speed or pitch of the song, it doesn’t affect the other parameters at all. Other than speed and pitch, Audio Pitch & Shift also allows you to introduce and include different effects in the music track, such as Distortion, Chorus, Ranger, Echo, Reverb etc. It supports a large number of file extensions for pitch and speed manipulation, including MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV, MPEG, FLAC, AAC etc. More on Audio Shift & Pitch after the break. Read More

BPMinus: Control Speed, Pitch & Equalizer Settings Of Audio Tracks

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Audio editing doesn’t only mean cutting out the favorite part of your song, changing the format, or bit rate of the track, other tweaks, such as changing the tempo, pitch, stereo mix and equalizer settings of the song are also a type of audio editing. There are a lot of tools available, such as Audacity, an open source free audio editing and recording program that matches in functionality to a lot of paid audio editing applications. However, the more options a tool has, the higher will be its learning curve, and there is no point in learning a difficult software when you only have to perform basic editing. BPMinus is an audio editing application for Windows that allows you to play and control the speed of music tracks while maintaining its pitch, as well as the sound quality. That’s not all; other than the speed, you can also change the pitch and equalizer options in isolation. The application maintains all other qualities of the track while you are changing the one you want. With a user friendly GUI, it has a very low learning curve and is easily customizable. Keep reading after the break to find out more about BPMinus. Read More

Get The Realtek Equalizer Back In Windows 7/Vista

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Officially, since Windows Vista and 7, Realtek stopped supporting a multi-band equalizer for it's HD Audio chips(present on many motherboards and in notebooks). All that is left are a couple of extreme presets (Pop, Classic, Rock etc.) and the environment presets that are useful to no-one (except for fun). However, together with some people on Tom's Hardware forums, we came to a solution. Here it goes, it's as easy as one-two... Edit: according to user dimar on Tom's Hardware forums, from R2.41 of the driver, the option to change to a graphic equalizer has returned. Looks like Realtek finally listened to its users. Read More