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Simple software based system wide graphical equalizer that works on bluetooth

Ok there are a lot of requests for a simple equalizer system but so far the choices seem to be either buy a set of wired headphones use the srs wow EQ which slows the phone down and has rather limited controls or use a high end media player.
can someone create a low profile software equlizer app that is NOT SRS WOW
all i need is the preamp and range sliders with a few preset slots that works over bluetooth. is it too much to ask for @[email protected]
"no i am not switching to core player XD"

HTC Audio Booster?
mikeloeven said:
Ok there are a lot of requests for a simple equalizer system but so far the choices seem to be either buy a set of wired headphones use the srs wow EQ which slows the phone down and has rather limited controls or use a high end media player.
can someone create a low profile software equlizer app that is NOT SRS WOW
all i need is the preamp and range sliders with a few preset slots that works over bluetooth. is it too much to ask for @[email protected]
"no i am not switching to core player XD"
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Have you looked into the HTC Audio Booster? I have that, but I'm not sure it does what you'e looking for.

HTC audio booster is buggy. It shuts off when it wants and at the end of songs. Everyone knows this.

Winamp - Significant Update

I know Winamp is pretty popular so I thought I'd share. One of the best music players on Android just got a very nice update: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nullsoft.winamp&feature=search_result This is the first update in ages and it's a good one.
What's new:
What's in this version:
1. Download and stream free music
2. Now Playing screen redesign
3. Additional artist info including News
4. Album art gesturing for track change
5. Home screen redesign
6. Browse by Genre
7. Lock-screen player redesign
8. Integration with Android's "listen to" Voice Action
9. SHOUTcast (2.2 & above) Featured Stations
10. Fixed crash issue on Sony Ericsson Xperia series
11. Languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (BR), Romanian, Russian, Spanish & Turkish
New very nice look (in many areas) and even greater functionality (genre finally!).
If you haven't tried Winamp or have tried but didn't like it at first, I recommend you check this out.
Still no EQ, which may be an issue for some. Hopefully that gets added sometime, but this is still really great.

still has a poor layout ui :S

Ive been hopping around through different music players and always come back to WinAmp. Ive tried...
-Mixzing
-double twist
-power amp
-cubed player
-Connected music player
-MIUI
-and various other stock ones
Every time i seem to fall back to Winamp although each of the players have there ups and downs

It should be skinnable . . . hope they wil implement it in a future release.
But the app does what it has 2 do . . .

ironlood said:
Ive been hopping around through different music players and always come back to WinAmp. Ive tried...
-Mixzing
-double twist
-power amp
-cubed player
-Connected music player
-MIUI
-and various other stock ones
Every time i seem to fall back to Winamp although each of the players have there ups and downs
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Yeah, I've tried all those as well lol. I think my favorite is actually the leaked new google one, but I can't really use it consistently since it often cracks up while playing and has some other issues (most importantly shuffle doesn't work). Winamp has been great in general.
Heruhur said:
It should be skinnable . . . hope they wil implement it in a future release.
But the app does what it has 2 do . . .
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Yup, something I want to see as well (and have requested in their beta forum). Hopefully they do this sometime.

PlayerPro is my music player of choice. IMO it has the best UI of all the ones you just listed. PowerAMP is really good too but the UI is too busy for my taste. You get a lot of functionality with PlayerPro in a much cleaner interface.
I will say that PlayerPro takes a lot of design hints from the iOS music players, but honestly, that's fine with me, because it looks great doing it. I bought the Pro version to support the developer and I don't regret the purchase at all. The only thing that annoys me about PlayerPro is lag while scrolling through long lists of albums with album art - although this is a problem with all players, PlayerPro seems to struggle with it more.
If you haven't tried it out yet you should - there's a trial version on the market with complete functionality.

br123 said:
PlayerPro is my music player of choice. IMO it has the best UI of all the ones you just listed. PowerAMP is really good too but the UI is too busy for my taste. You get a lot of functionality with PlayerPro in a much cleaner interface.
I will say that PlayerPro takes a lot of design hints from the iOS music players, but honestly, that's fine with me, because it looks great doing it. I bought the Pro version to support the developer and I don't regret the purchase at all. The only thing that annoys me about PlayerPro is lag while scrolling through long lists of albums with album art - although this is a problem with all players, PlayerPro seems to struggle with it more.
If you haven't tried it out yet you should - there's a trial version on the market with complete functionality.
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I'll check it out - though I think I checked it out already once and wasn't too impressed.
btw, in terms of scrolling through long lists, I don't think any player has felt smoother and without lag as connected music player.

But no built-in EQ yet?

I listen exclusively through wireless BT headphones, which always sound thin and tinny unless I significantly boost the low and mid-high frequencies. They also tend to be pretty sibilant, so I need to cut the highest frequencies. PowerAMP is the only player I've found that gives me the control I want over the shape of the sound - and now my wireless phones sound incredible!

It's improved. They need to not do the cover art transition animation when you are changing songs on the same album. And they need to an old school skinned version.

still no folder view... what are they thinking...

br123 said:
PlayerPro is my music player of choice. IMO it has the best UI of all the ones you just listed. PowerAMP is really good too but the UI is too busy for my taste. You get a lot of functionality with PlayerPro in a much cleaner interface.
I will say that PlayerPro takes a lot of design hints from the iOS music players, but honestly, that's fine with me, because it looks great doing it. I bought the Pro version to support the developer and I don't regret the purchase at all. The only thing that annoys me about PlayerPro is lag while scrolling through long lists of albums with album art - although this is a problem with all players, PlayerPro seems to struggle with it more.
If you haven't tried it out yet you should - there's a trial version on the market with complete functionality.
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i may have found my new player....thanks for the sugg
PS - for the scroll-lag, i might suggest using list view instead of grid view in settings>browser options

Shoutcast favorites and recent stations is borked too.
I wish they would put a sleep timer in already.

Add a bloody EQ!

boodies said:
still no folder view... what are they thinking...
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What a music player that is recommended now that I can play songs from a folder actually?

SHOUTcast still doesn't work. Why? No clue. They've had all this time to fix it but instead of fixing up some of the bigger main problems they focus on the other stuff that should be put behind the main problems.
UI is still hideous. But I've managed to find some very nice smoked out designs from the droidforums that makes it look a whole lots better.
As for EQ's (Equalizers) I wouldn't mind seeing this feature in Winamp. But nothing as serious as PowerAmp. PowerAmp's biggest recognition is due to their massive adjustments of the EQ. Winamp doesn't need something big like that. Just something subtle and enough to notice the change depending on genre of artist(s)/song(s). I don't see the need for a few different bass settings unless you're seriously wired up to your sound system in your vehicle and changes can be made with your phone and Winamp. The need for different options on levels of bass is stupid. No offense, I love a lot of bass and the thumping that goes with it, but on a phone? Pointless when your phone speakers or putting PC Speaker mode on is not going to change.
Lock-screen redesign is dumb as heck. It's no different than just going to your Home screen and going to the app in your app drawer and playing it on there. I'd like to see some smaller widget-like redesign specifically for the lock-screen.
Another thing that seems to work to the liking of tons of people is the spectrum moving along with the music playing. Like in MIUI. MIUI isn't that great and has minor FC's here and there depending on music change but their design is almost flawless. I would like to see something like that just to give the Now Playing (in Home screen or elsewhere) a bit more vibe.
I could go on and on with the pros and cons of Winamp and add-ons and ditch-on-this, but my point was laid out. The only thing I see that was worthy through the so-called "major update" is the "listen to" voice action. This feature will definitely come in handy for people driving, or not wanting to scroll through all the artists/songs they have on there.

So, I can no longer find how to enable/disable shuffle in the new version, as the 'now playing' screen seems to have been shafted in favour of giant album art.
To toggle shuffle I now have to use the widget, I can't find the option in the app itself. Just me?

richardkemp said:
So, I can no longer find how to enable/disable shuffle in the new version, as the 'now playing' screen seems to have been shafted in favour of giant album art.
To toggle shuffle I now have to use the widget, I can't find the option in the app itself. Just me?
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Tap the album art to pop up shuffle, repeat and info buttons.
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TheSwaggeR said:
SHOUTcast still doesn't work. Why? No clue. They've had all this time to fix it but instead of fixing up some of the bigger main problems they focus on the other stuff that should be put behind the main problems.
UI is still hideous. But I've managed to find some very nice smoked out designs from the droidforums that makes it look a whole lots better.
As for EQ's (Equalizers) I wouldn't mind seeing this feature in Winamp. But nothing as serious as PowerAmp. PowerAmp's biggest recognition is due to their massive adjustments of the EQ. Winamp doesn't need something big like that. Just something subtle and enough to notice the change depending on genre of artist(s)/song(s). I don't see the need for a few different bass settings unless you're seriously wired up to your sound system in your vehicle and changes can be made with your phone and Winamp. The need for different options on levels of bass is stupid. No offense, I love a lot of bass and the thumping that goes with it, but on a phone? Pointless when your phone speakers or putting PC Speaker mode on is not going to change.
Lock-screen redesign is dumb as heck. It's no different than just going to your Home screen and going to the app in your app drawer and playing it on there. I'd like to see some smaller widget-like redesign specifically for the lock-screen.
Another thing that seems to work to the liking of tons of people is the spectrum moving along with the music playing. Like in MIUI. MIUI isn't that great and has minor FC's here and there depending on music change but their design is almost flawless. I would like to see something like that just to give the Now Playing (in Home screen or elsewhere) a bit more vibe.
I could go on and on with the pros and cons of Winamp and add-ons and ditch-on-this, but my point was laid out. The only thing I see that was worthy through the so-called "major update" is the "listen to" voice action. This feature will definitely come in handy for people driving, or not wanting to scroll through all the artists/songs they have on there.
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That's the thing though, many of us use our phones as our music players as well. I use it in the car, makes a HUGE difference with a good EQ such as PowerAmp. The problem with PowerAmp is that it has the most god awful UI every conceived. I mean seriously... THE worst.

Still waiting for Winamp to support FLAC.
Poweramp is the top player now to me but its not free and the UI is a bit too busy.
I do prefer Winamp's UI better.

[APP]10 bands equalizer for android

Equalizer Pro for android.
Improve your android device sound with 10 bands equalizer. Equalizer Pro allows you to configure volumes of sound effects, to give you maximum enjoing, when you are listening music on your android device.
10 bands equalizer lets you configure sound amplitude frequency characteristic to get best sound from your device. There are available auxiliary sound effects: Bass Boost to boost low frequencies and Virtualizer to extend stereo effect.
Features:
- 10 bands equalizer
- Bass Boost
- Virtualizer
- 12 presets
- User presets
- Integration with common players (Google Play Music, Android Player, Winamp, etc)
- Stream services support (Pandora, Spotify, VK, etc)
The following presets are included:
Classic
- Default
- Super Bass
- Lite
- Blues
- Classical
- Dance
- Heavy Metal
- Hip Hop
- Jazz
- Pop
- Rock
- Flat

Awesome work
Works fine on my good old Galaxy Tab (where the app "Equalizer" from the Play Store ceased to work since cm is running on it (at last for the speakers)). Thank you very much.
(Now if we could have shortcuts to user presets on the home screen like in Equalizer … But even without it, I'm happy.)

Thank you for feedback! We are going to implement widget in next update.

I somehow have to correct myself. The equalizer works well when I play samples from within the app itself or start TuneIn Radio. It has no effect with PowerAmp or Xiialive. What comes to my mind is that the latter two have their own equalizers built-in.
The sliders are a little hard to operate. Until now, I had only a chance to try it on my Galaxy Tab P1000, cm10.2, using its speakers. The S2 will follow, but this may take a few days.
A widget is coming ... good news!

Thank you for the great app,,,, testing it on my htc rhyme stock ics and sensation xe running revelation 1.0.2 both working good but sometimes the sound crash a bit maybe you can fix that in the next update.... thank you very much

thank you for your share

GABPEKNAS said:
Thank you for the great app,,,, testing it on my htc rhyme stock ics and sensation xe running revelation 1.0.2 both working good but sometimes the sound crash a bit maybe you can fix that in the next update.... thank you very much
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Hello! What the player do you use?

soundapps said:
Hello! What the player do you use?
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I use stock htc music player,,,

GABPEKNAS said:
I use stock htc music player,,,
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Thank you. I will check and will try to fix this issue.

I like it so far. Just don't like having to manually go in a turn it off.

I like it so far!
But there should be an option to not show it in the status bar.
Also it's really hard to operate in landscape mode because the ads are
pushing the contents upward and makes it to compact.
And in the portrait mode you can't see all the bands,
so it hard to get a good overview.
Otherways it's really nice to have a clean simple non flashy app
that really just do exactly what it's supposed to do.
So far your app and DSP Manager is the only apps that does this.
Keep up the good work!

right installed this on my android and the audio was better, yay tanks

Suggestion and a question.
S1: Add a reset button. I just changed the default EQ and don't see a way to reset back to the default. (Edit, clearing app data works but that would obviously kill all custom created EQ's).
S2: A widget button to toggle the equalizer on/off. (Automatic detection of wired or wireless profiles would be nice but we don't need to go too fancy) A widget to turn on and off would be nice.
S3: Maybe a donate option, to export saved equalizers that you created yourself.
Q: Why does it need to read SD-Contents?
I have to say I wish I found this earlier. It is prefect and is exactly what I was looking for. 10 Band equalizer with a clean simple interface.
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SvenSSSvensson said:
I like it so far!
But there should be an option to not show it in the status bar.
Also it's really hard to operate in landscape mode because the ads are
pushing the contents upward and makes it to compact.
And in the portrait mode you can't see all the bands,
so it hard to get a good overview.
Otherways it's really nice to have a clean simple non flashy app
that really just do exactly what it's supposed to do.
So far your app and DSP Manager is the only apps that does this.
Keep up the good work!
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I for one hate notifications as well but for this instance want it. I need some headphone equalization but that same equalization creates muddy sound in my car. It serves as quick way for me to see if I still have it on
Settings --> Apps --> Equalizer Pro --> Right below force stop it has "Show Notifications", uncheck it. No more status bar notification.

Doesn't work for me using Google play . I'm an lg optimus f3
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I can't hear the difference after using the equalizer
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Would be perfect if there was an option to change/customize bands, my shure se215 are pretty great when i change the 5khz band and others, these bands are no option on your equalizer and others. I would pay even 10 euros for that option.

Hi,
I would like too the ability to customize each band.
I need the 120 hz band but there ise only a 162 hz band
Thanks

The suggestion of nonobio is realy good but I can imagine it is hard to do this.
I have another suggestion: I would realy like to set the pre amp manually.
The loudness of my mobile phone is very limited and the switch of a band to 3,0 db or more reduce
the loudness automatically. So it would be great to have the control of the pre amp settings.
Greetings

I guess this project is dead? That's a shame. This thing has/had potential. Just needed some minor tweeking.

It's really the best equalizer I've tested so far!!
And it is fully compliant with Sony Walkman app on my Z2 / kit-kat
Thanks a lot!

[Q] best ROM for audiophiles?

I don't really care what the ROM looks like although it's definitely a plus if it looks good. I'm mainly looking for a ROM that's designed specifically for music usage & playback. I'm going to download Voodoo Sound on top whatever ROM I flash unless it's included. But before I downloaded Cyanogen or something I was checking with you guys if you had seen any audiophile specific ROMS around lately? This one looked promising but it's not a Verizon model. Is there any ports around? Or would this even be worth it with the Voodo Sound on top with Neutron player?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2174644
Thank you guys for all of your help. I appreciate it. & this may be in the wrong place but I'm not sure so if it is then my apologies.

From a code/programming perspective, there's no difference in roms, other than the audio add-ons they offer... but those add-ons are nothing more than compression and equalizer tools. Beatz Audio, DSP Manager, Voodoo... all are just compression tools to 'beef up' sound and they give you equalizing customization, but you can do that kind of equalization with apps like Doubletwist. The digital compression those add-ons and apps use is teh evil if you're an audiophile, because it overcompensates and 'chops the head' off sound.
You're not going to get an audiophile experience on a phone, because of the hardware used; there's always going to be some signal to noise ratio loss from the headphone plug and device board. Bluetooth can reduce the S/N reduction, but most aftermarket roms aren't working well with BT for prolonged use (I've had good luck with the 4.3 roms, but not 4.4). If you want the best performance, get an AOSP-based rom, then add in all the apps you want to eqing.
I'm a music producer, so I try to avoid all that compression crap whenever possible... eqing is about all I'll do to a properly-mastered release. Case-in-point, I play older jazz FLACs all the time on Doubletwist; I use the EQ feature and it sounds about as good as you can get on an S3.

beepea206 said:
From a code/programming perspective, there's no difference in roms, other than the audio add-ons they offer... but those add-ons are nothing more than compression and equalizer tools. Beatz Audio, DSP Manager, Voodoo... all are just compression tools to 'beef up' sound and they give you equalizing customization, but you can do that kind of equalization with apps like Doubletwist. The digital compression those add-ons and apps use is teh evil if you're an audiophile, because it overcompensates and 'chops the head' off sound.
You're not going to get an audiophile experience on a phone, because of the hardware used; there's always going to be some signal to noise ratio loss from the headphone plug and device board. Bluetooth can reduce the S/N reduction, but most aftermarket roms aren't working well with BT for prolonged use (I've had good luck with the 4.3 roms, but not 4.4). If you want the best performance, get an AOSP-based rom, then add in all the apps you want to eqing.
I'm a music producer, so I try to avoid all that compression crap whenever possible... eqing is about all I'll do to a properly-mastered release. Case-in-point, I play older jazz FLACs all the time on Doubletwist; I use the EQ feature and it sounds about as good as you can get on an S3.
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That's very helpful. So what's your favorite player then? I don't necessarily like carrying around a phone & a player for mobile listening but if I have to then so be it. I've been using Poweramp EQ'd pushing my vsonic gr07's for portable use. It was pretty good with the FLACS I have but I feel like it could be better. How much of a difference does the Voodoo mod make? Will it even work with Verizon galaxy s3 since it wasn't shipped with the Wolfson DAC? Either way I'm using a FiiO E17 with it which has Wolfson. I'm just trying to get this all figured out.

Truth be told, I haven't found that one player I really love. If I could mix Winamp with Doubletwist, I'd have my perfect player... DT doesn't have very good playlist support and Winamp is clunky, but I love the feel of DT.
Voodoo is really similar to CM's DSP Manager and is a more customizable version of BeatsAudio; I honestly don't know if Voodoo works with the S3, but DSP manager does. The both offer compression and EQ control, so if you have low-quality MP3s, they'll sound better than stock sound will make them. If you have a music app like Poweramp or Doubletwist, you don't need to use the EQ control in Voodoo, so what's left is just the compression feature. Personally, I stay away from compression apps/mods like the plague, because they end up altering the sound of the file and, IMO, if it's a properly mastered file/recording, you don't need compression (except for maybe some tube compression on a standalone amp for some 'warmer' sound... but that's not applicable here).
I stick to using EQ controls in the players apps. If you try that and just don't find they offer you the sound you want, then try an app like Voodoo. But be forewarned, I've seen (and experienced) some issues on other devices where apps like that can alter the audio framework of the rom permanently, so even after you uninstall it, the sound remains affected.

Best is in the eye of the beholder.
Users are expected to do their own research and try Roms to see what suits them best.
As xda is not a support site, this thread is closed.

Equalizer apps

Does anyone know of the best equalizer apps for our phones? I've used a couple in the past and it had good bass, but it dropped the volume. And I'm asking of an app that would improve the sound from my BT to my vehicle to play my music. Oh, I use Google Play music as my source too.
Thanks in advance.

There's a built in equalizer in the phone settings. Probably won't find one that works right as an installed app.

I use...
Power amp. There is an equalizer in that app that works better than the stock equalizer.

for the S8 or Note 8 try Noozxoide i found to get the benefit i had to disable sound alive using BK disabler and it actually sounds almost as good as Viper4Android, all done without root and it gives volume a real boost too, its the best ive seen so far second only to viper