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Hey guys, I don't know whether ur scared of the topic but no one has found ways to better the sound quality of the phone . Everyone is able to port stuff and create roms but never anything about sound improvement like porting dolby from other android mobile.
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Nothing wrong with my Desire, I can make calls just fine thank you!!
I reckon people with issues with the volume are the ones that will suffer from deafness early in life as they probably crank up the volume on all devices
i didnt mean voice calls, i meant when playing music through the ear phones. before u say get better headphones, i got senheissers cx400s. the sound quality is rubbish at best. my n95 and n73 both played music better than the htc phone with the same headphones.
I got to agree on the sound quality issue. The music is just too flat on desire.
I am reconsidering galaxy s and iphone4 due to this...
Hopefully someone can port a better music player or fix the issue soon...
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Surely its a hardware limitation.
Aside from putting a better dac in the device (probably impossible) what can be done about sound quality? I don't get how a better music player could help.
You can try with DSP Manager... included in some modded rom... like mine...
music is fine on mine (dsp manager + Sennheiser CX 400 II's)
it was rubbish compared to my ipod shuffle using the same headphones, before using dsp manager
I use mixzing player with equalizer with a custom preset for better quality.
What's dsp manager? How to use it?
yeah what is the dsp manager ive been hearing about
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yeah what is the dsp manager ive been hearing about
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DSP manager is an equalizer built into the ROM. It can have seperate settings for phone speaker, bluetooth and headphones. I used to to take some of the tinniness out of phone speaker. It's in CM6, and probably a lot of other roms too.
vinee9 said:
yeah what is the dsp manager ive been hearing about
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Here is a flashable version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7681025&postcount=2 (Add Ons / Tools)
Does anybody know if this could be flashed onto "OpenDesire 4.0.2"?
As I know OD is based on Cyanogen...
Thank you
hey guys, just wanted to know if the dsp manager is anything like the equalizers on mixzing or other music apps for android
spaboleo said:
Does anybody know if this could be flashed onto "OpenDesire 4.0.2"?
As I know OD is based on Cyanogen...
Thank you
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Don't know if this can be flashed to OD, but OD is not based on Cyanogen, it is a build from Android source.
DSP manager is brilliant. The compressor pops a bit too much for my liking though.
abc27 said:
DSP manager is brilliant. The compressor pops a bit too much for my liking though.
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It's not working for me...
hey guys just wanted to ask if the equalizer is better than the ones found on music apps on market place like mixzing, astro player, etc
Just to let you know...I've flashed it onto OpenDesire 4.04 and it works...
You need the DSP Manager apk, too.
I took the one from this Post: http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7999377&postcount=6
Thanks =)
Thru loud speaker, Desire wasn't really that good. But thru headsets with Mixzing, is quite good.
completely agree. speakers on the phone are horrible. i think im gonna invest in a new pair of earphones. hope i dont get any compatibility issues which bug other users
I know there's a couple of viable options in the Android Market. Free ones like Winamp and Tunewiki and paid ones like PowerAmp. However, the people around here do better work than those devs do. Is there any aftermarket music players on here somewhere? One compatible with MikFroYo 4.4?
If it matters, running all updated stuff, hardware 0004 and hboot 2.10 (not by choice, it came this way).
Any help would be appreciated.
AbsolutZeroGI said:
I know there's a couple of viable options in the Android Market. Free ones like Winamp and Tunewiki and paid ones like PowerAmp. However, the people around here do better work than those devs do. Is there any aftermarket music players on here somewhere? One compatible with MikFroYo 4.4?
If it matters, running all updated stuff, hardware 0004 and hboot 2.10 (not by choice, it came this way).
Any help would be appreciated.
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I'd say you named the big ones. For CM there is a custom made music app I think. Other than that, everyone uses the stock music app. If you do come across one, let me know lol. I really like PowerAMP cause its equalizer is better than DSP manager but for me, not worth paying for.
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I'd say you named the big ones. For CM there is a custom made music app I think. Other than that, everyone uses the stock music app. If you do come across one, let me know lol. I really like PowerAMP cause its equalizer is better than DSP manager but for me, not worth paying for.
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I hear the MIUI stock music app is pretty cool, but I don't know if there's a free-floating apk out there (the whole reason for the post, actually, lol). If you think your CM music player will work with a Sense rom, by all means please shoot me a copy. I'd love to give it a shot. The stock sense app isn't half bad but I don't have a full screen I can dedicate to it (damn foursquare).
When I first installed Poweramp my trial lasted about 2 months because every market update reset my 2 week trial. When the box did finally pop up just hit cancel. I never have to see it anyway because I plug in my earbuds and it starts playing automatically. I was ready to buy it because it is the best player I've found but then I heard 2.3 will come with more audio options including eq for all sound output. I'll wait and see how that works out.
You have been EVOfied.
I use Meridian Media Player. It works great.
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another vote for the miui music app...havent tried it but i will...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=921997
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=898368
Just pay for poweramp, it is the best player out there and I've tried them all. Don't be cheap.
MixZing is pretty nice, and the free version has most of the features one would need (but it also has ads). The full version gets rid of ads and unlocks a few things.
What do most of you guys use in your vehicles for audio player from EVO phone? Ive tested winamp, poweramp, & currently the music player from CM7 stock. BTW what music player is used in the latest CM7 mod, when I had destroyer v2 it wasnt used there? I really like how it sets up all your folders & you can go thru each one. Poweramp has an EQ which people rant n rave about but it seems like the EQ gives an exaggerated sound when used in a vehicle with speakers...Opinions?
i'm using miui music player. you need to manually sign the apk and everythign to get it to install, but it's worth it. i can shoot you a copy if you want. i love the lyrics support and automatic album cover downloads, the app is just plain awesome.
Do you have any pix or videos of it in action? Dont care for the album art really jus that I can go into seperate folders with music.
here's the app itself. signed, so just install from adb or through a file browser.
Pivo187 said:
What do most of you guys use in your vehicles for audio player from EVO phone? Ive tested winamp, poweramp, & currently the music player from CM7 stock. BTW what music player is used in the latest CM7 mod, when I had destroyer v2 it wasnt used there? I really like how it sets up all your folders & you can go thru each one. Poweramp has an EQ which people rant n rave about but it seems like the EQ gives an exaggerated sound when used in a vehicle with speakers...Opinions?
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I haven't found a music app yet that can compete with an iPod's. Sadly, I hate everything Steve Jobs' name is attached to but their music app far surpasses ours. If I find/make one you can bet your ass I'll be posting it here lol.
For now, I use MIUI (what dkdude uses) when I have music on my phone and otherwise I just use my Zune HD.
+1 Sucks, but true.
PowerAmp
I use Power Amp. It is my favorite!
It's available on the market.
If you like the CM music app, try "Music Mod". It's free in the market, and also the app CM chose for their roms.
EDIT: I'm currently using the MIUI music app as well because I'm on MIUI... plus it's really good. In the past I've used Player Pro, it's really nice. They've recently added an equalizer, which isn't a big deal to me, but is for some. Mixzing is another decent one.
I use the stock Sense music player. Works just fine.
I use poweramp, it was actually the second app I paid for (first was metamorph). I just make sure to turn on the large lockscreen widget.
I have it piped in through the AUX port on my head unit. As far as the EQ and sound and all that, I just set up custom EQ settings (on the head unit itself) for my AUX input mode and everything sounds great.
I especially love how it starts playing automatically when I plug in the headphone jack, and stops playing automatically when I take it off.
the newest MIUI music is really great. Not sure if dkdude has a working versions of it though. Settings always causes a force close. i dont care much for the apple music. Took all my music off my ipad, which is a paperweight anyway
Dont you guys who use poweramp find the EQ sound to be exaggerated? Everytime Ive used it in my car and put on the EQ the SQ doesnt sound natural it sounds exaggerated & not right...Also if I were to get mp3s with 320kb would it sound as good as using an original CD or thats just not possible?
I'm a big fan of Cubed. I've used just about every free music player in the market, and IMO, nothing comes close.
ive used poweramp, cube, doubletwist, stock sense, stock gingerbread, but now i switched over to using MixZing, its my fav so far, its free, has an equilizer, automatically downloads album art and updates the tags, give u a folder search. its good stuff!!
I totally feel you on PowerAmp. IMO it does exaggerage the range by the EQ; in most cases I just turned it off. I did dig the interface for a bit but it was hard to use one-handed for me. Also, it was a bit unintuitive.
I'm using the stock player in CM7/Gingerbread and I'm perfectly happy with it. Simplicity trumps most things for me. When I run Sense, I just use the Sense player.
alaman68 said:
the newest MIUI music is really great. Not sure if dkdude has a working versions of it though. Settings always causes a force close. i dont care much for the apple music. Took all my music off my ipad, which is a paperweight anyway
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Mine is working. Cm7. Tell me if you want an upload
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Pivo187 said:
Dont you guys who use poweramp find the EQ sound to be exaggerated? Everytime Ive used it in my car and put on the EQ the SQ doesnt sound natural it sounds exaggerated & not right...Also if I were to get mp3s with 320kb would it sound as good as using an original CD or thats just not possible?
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I don't bother with the EQ in PowerAmp, but I've always felt it was kinda annoying to mess with software EQs, especially on a touchscreen. I just adjust settings as needed on the head unit itself, and that works great.
As to your second question, that's something that's been debated in audiophile circles for a long time. With a car stereo, you might notice a slight improvement with FLAC/CD over mp3, but it will be only in the highest of the high frequencies and honestly you'd have to be actively paying attention. And that's assuming that your audio equipment is even of a high enough fidelity in the first place. Road noise while driving won't be doing you any favours either.
In short: don't worry about it, 320kbps mp3 is more than fine and will sound just like the CD for all intents and purposes.
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Mine is working. Cm7. Tell me if you want an upload
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Yea please
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Yea please
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srry it took so long. been busy.
Does anyone have an eq manager working with spotify in jelly bean? I've tried to get DSP and volume+ to work but haven't been able too.
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Does anyone have an eq manager working with spotify in jelly bean? I've tried to get DSP and volume+ to work but haven't been able too.
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search for awsome beats dsp it works just fine
spotify doesnt use the correct music API to work with awesome beats dsp and dsp manager
AMEN.
I've been trying to contact Spotify about this and they only seem intersted in giving me the runaround about development sometimes doesn't always give you what you want immediately or something... I really hope they remedy this, as I REALLY miss useing DSP Manager to make my Ultimate Ears sound phenomenal on my Galaxy Nexus.
Not even Volume+ works right, which used to be the only one that worked reliably with ICS.
And no, Beats Audio doesn't work with Spotify and Jelly Bean. If you really got it working, I'd love to know how.
I swear on my unborn children life that I'm not a troll.
BUT
Somehow I could use dspmanager with my spotify yesterday. I was then on XenonHD/Trinity and had the mod from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803&highlight=awesome+beats installed.
However the same night I did a reset and installed Rasbeanjelly instead, and now I can't get spotify to work with dspmanager anymore...
The new version of spotify has a equalizer built in, but I got waaaay better sound when I could use dspmanager.
Could it have to do with me listening to spotify offline?
Did a nandroid backup before i installed RBJ. Might restore that one just to be able to figure out why it worked!
Cipter said:
I swear on my unborn children life that I'm not a troll.
BUT
Somehow I could use dspmanager with my spotify yesterday. I was then on XenonHD/Trinity and had the mod from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803&highlight=awesome+beats installed.
However the same night I did a reset and installed Rasbeanjelly instead, and now I can't get spotify to work with dspmanager anymore...
The new version of spotify has a equalizer built in, but I got waaaay better sound when I could use dspmanager.
Could it have to do with me listening to spotify offline?
Did a nandroid backup before i installed RBJ. Might restore that one just to be able to figure out why it worked!
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I got it working too! somehow...
I have PA and then flashed a DSP.zip and for a while it doesnt worked. but now i'm sitting on the couch and it works somehow with my bluetooth sound very nice!
Dsp works a treat for me. I once contacted support about audio beats not working and the guy on his reply insinuated that Spotify will be releasing their very own eq
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Has DSP Manager ever worked for your Galaxy Nexus in any rom? I am willing to downgrade my rom to get a working DSP Manager. I already tried different music apps (Neutron, PowerAmp, JetAudio, MX Player) on all custom roms from 4.1.2 to 4.2.2--this all took a frustrating long day--and DSP Manager only works with Apollo music player. I am quite attached to DSP Manager in my LG P500 which I converted into a dedicated mp3 player using JetAudio Plus, and I can't listen to a different sound signature than what that combination gives me.
there are roms that have working DSP managers but i think most if not a majority of the gnex community uses:
-noozxoide
-awesome! beats
-king(?) beats
you can try the noozxoide sound engine(dsp replacement) with NOOZY music player.
or if you want to venture further, theres the ac!d audio thread and their engine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923630
jt.one said:
there are roms that have working DSP managers but i think most if not a majority of the gnex community uses:
-noozxoide
-awesome! beats
-king(?) beats
you can try the noozxoide sound engine(dsp replacement) with NOOZY music player.
or if you want to venture further, theres the ac!d audio thread and their engine
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1923630
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THANK YOU JT for the reply! I wasn't hoping to get one, much less this fast.
I'll try those immediately and report the results.
DSP Manager works but only on Cyanogenmod's default music player Apollo. I've seen similar reports but on other Galaxy Nexus forums, not this one, so I was thinking it's an inherent problem with the device OR like in reports on other devices, something happened with Android 4.1.x and 4.2.x that made DSP Manager stop working like it used to.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803 very happy with the results of this Misledz is the man!
Tapatyping from my Galaxy Nexus
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803 very happy with the results of this Misledz is the man!
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Wow, it looks like a party in there! THANK YOU for the reply! I'm definitely trying that one as well.
I tried Beats before, but I immediately went back to DSP Manager. What I love about DSP Manager the most is the bass boost, because I've never heard a deeper, punchier, distortion-free bass than DSP Manager's, and I listen to chiptune dance music a lot.
Also, I noticed that when you cup your hand just below the speaker vent of the Galaxy Nexus, the sound volume increases ten times that it's deafening! It's really weird! Has anyone else noticed this? The side of your cupped hand should touch just below the vent, while holding the phone like normal.
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Wow, it looks like a party in there! THANK YOU for the reply! I'm definitely trying that one as well.
I tried Beats before, but I immediately went back to DSP Manager. What I love about DSP Manager the most is the bass boost, because I've never heard a deeper, punchier, distortion-free bass than DSP Manager's, and I listen to chiptune dance music a lot.
Also, I noticed that when you cup your hand just below the speaker vent of the Galaxy Nexus, the sound volume increases ten times that it's deafening! It's really weird! Has anyone else noticed this? The side of your cupped hand should touch just below the vent, while holding the phone like normal.
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lol yeah that's normal.
by cupping the speaker area, you're allowing the sound to bounce off the walls of your hand hence the "louder"-ness.
the same thing can be achieved by putting your into a tall cup or leaned against a wall in a cabinet allowing it to bounce and echo
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748803 very happy with the results of this Misledz is the man!
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Heya bon badier what exact rom are you using? EDIT: okay I see in your signature you're using the Cataclysm rom, but just to confirm if this is the one working with the audio effects app you mentioned.
None of the apps mentioned worked on the official CM10.1 nightlies. It only affected Apollo but nothing else.
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lol yeah that's normal.
by cupping the speaker area, you're allowing the sound to bounce off the walls of your hand hence the "louder"-ness.
the same thing can be achieved by putting your into a tall cup or leaned against a wall in a cabinet allowing it to bounce and echo
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Yeah, I forgot to mention that putting just the tip of my finger just below the vent making a 45 degree angle boosts the volume tremendously. I thought a simple contraption mod could do the same thing, like a small flexible flap the same width as the vent.
Also JT what exact rom are you using? As I said, all the apps mentioned behave the same way as DSP Manager on the official CM10.1 nightlies. They only worked on Apollo and not on anything else. EDIT: I see in your signature you're using Xenon HD with purity kernel, so this is just to confirm.