Ok, let me preface this by saying I don't know what I'm doing, but I got DSP manager working brilliantly. Your mileage may vary and I'm not responsible if this messes up your device - MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!
My current setup:
VZW SGS3 w/ the K1 base.
CM10 Official & CM10 Nightlies (I've also used this on ICS and JB based TouchWiz ROMs)
Stock SGS3 headphones (they sound fantastic w/ this DSP Manager)
V6 Supercharger with the new Maximum Overdrive Multitasking Mod (may actually hurt the DSP effects)
Imoeseyon's Lean Kernel (Experimental) 1.10
I've tried just about all the DSP Managers I could find, Beats Audio, AwesomeBeats, as well as the new AC!D add-on (v4 and v5). They either don't work at all or they severely distort the bass.
What Works:
Using CM10 at least, this will provide excellent audio control in most apps. I've confirmed it working in Google Play Music, Google Play Movies & TV, Plex, PowerAmp, Pandora and YouTube. You will know it will work b/c (using the stock headphones at least) it will literally hurt your ears with clean, powerful bass. I've noticed in TW-based ROMs the DSP Manager doesn't seem to work with Google Play Music or the stock music player, but does work with most everything else.
Issues:
The only issue I've noticed is the DSP Manager will randomly turn off after 15-20 minutes sometimes, but this is known CM10 issue, which is what this DSP Manager came from. Wiggling the headphone plug or actually unplugging and plugging back-in usually fixes it. Also, the Dynamic Range Compression only seems to work in CM10 (maybe other non-TW based ROMs), but it actually kills all the bass, so I don't even use it. I've also noticed that the DSP Manager only works on certain songs using Google Play Music, but I've only noticed this using CM10 and V6 Supercharger, so I suspect those may be the culprit; on CM10 stable with no V6 Supercharger, it worked great.
My settings:
DRC: Off
Bass Boost: Enabled, Moderate
Equalizer: Enabled, Rock
Loudness Compensation: Stronger (this made a big difference on the bass output)
Headset Virtual Room Effect: Disabled
Enjoy!
http://www.4shared.com/zip/68ZTKefC/DSPmanager-v3-SGS3.html
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I bring you DSP-Manager 2.35. Thisone works on stock and custom ROMs (thoroughly tested). Unlike the ones already posted in the SGf thread, the sound remains consistent (does not suddenly go up, causing destruction of your earbuds).
Oh, and it works with stock music player as well.
For music afficionados, this one is for you. For that deep bass thumping sound, just enable compression (moderate), bass boost (moderate), equalizer (rock) and Virtual Room (large room is nice).Credits to the original creators (I need not mention them)
And finally,
the update script:
dsp-manager235-signed.zip
Just flash it with stock recovery or CWM.
It works both ways
Enjoy!
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Awesome mate
Nice update....
Hi I'm just wondering if there is a fix for a problem I'm having, when I play music it stutters the sound I've tried different music players to resolve the problem with no luck. Any advice would be great
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I'm having the same problem. But only with AOKP roms, started after build 39. And I dont have the issue with CM9 or Sense 3.6 or 4 based ROMs, but i really love the toggle switches in the AOKP notification widget
did u full wipe before upgrading rom? because AOKP is known to have audio routing issues and it is fixed in some version (sorry, i did not keep up with the updates)
hope it helps =)
Mr-YC said:
did u full wipe before upgrading rom? because AOKP is known to have audio routing issues and it is fixed in some version (sorry, i did not keep up with the updates)
hope it helps =)
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I've run into this problem as well, and yes I do a "format everything but SD card" prior to installing each ROM.
I noticed it first in the AOKP-based ROM EyeCandy 3.0. Whatever the dev memnoc did between that and the final 3.1 release fixed it, as a clean install of 3.1 removes the audio issues.
I'm still having the issue with the AOKP-m6 based ROM Supreme Blue
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1767064
I've tried a bunch of rumored fixes:
installed awesome beats - audio still skips, but it now skips in high fidelity lol
installed DSP manager - did absolutely nothing, save provide me with an equalizer for the skipping audio
installed poweramp - this fixed the audio, however it was ONLY fixed when playing media through poweramp. Slacker, Pandora, TuneIn, Dood's Music, etc. all STILL had skipping audio issues.
My guess is that one of the default system audio libs isn't behaving nicely. Poweramp I would guess circumvents this with by using its own lib?
I have never used the eq or dsp manager on any 4.2.2 builds. I'm running slim build 4, and I don't know how to get to an eq. I ended up installing the viper audio mod. Which installed fine, I just need to read the directions on getting it to work with apollo and or playerpro.
What DSP manager are you guys using? Back on CM7 I used to use either the built in DSP manager in settings, or Volume+.
What is MusicFX and what does it do. How do I get the eq working in apollo?
Thanks for any assistance or advice.
In my experience MusicFX works only with the Samsung player and can't be used with other players. For the DSP , I would not use it cause a lot of times you'd get echo in phone calls, again my experience. I also use Volume+ which I find works well on any build of android. DSP is a very good app unfortunately as I mentioned a lot of people had the echoing on the phone while in a call if you can live with it then use it. Am on TW rom now but I did try CM10 and AOKP unfortunately never had luck with DSP.
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For viper will have to put it in safe mode to get it to work on Apollo.
I am experiencing some - a little bit annoying - bugs in music playing, and i hope someone could help me..
I am using stock rom, phone is rooted.
Actually I am using poweramp as main music player (which the better one for solving part of my issues) with the following sound andvanced settings:
-no dvc
- buffer size +750
-Thread Audio: Maximal
and music still stutters everytime my phone locks the screen or randomly every 2-3 minutes (i don't know the exact name of the problem, but it's the same as when you're listening to streaming music and it has some buffer problems, it stops for a nanosecond, but you can clearly hear it)
I tried also different options, as it looks like it could be a ram processing problem, by disabling all unnecessary applications i didn't use, sense included (Using Apex right now). Disabling beats doesn't change a lot (and I bought this phone also because of Beats Audio, I won't turn it off)
I tried also some of the custom roms here on the forum but nothing changed... The biggest "ram-eating" applications i have always on are whatsapp and Fb messenger, i wouldn't think it's because of them.
I tried a lot of combinations, this one looks like the better one (music stutters only sometimes).
This problem doesn't exist only with stock music player - that means there must be a way to solve this - but i don't use it because it lacks of a lot of things.
Has anybody ever experienced this problem? Any help?
If you are rooted, you can give another kernel a try.
Maybe stock, oc kernel like Stockbeats Kernel.
Don't forget the backup before.
old.splatterhand said:
If you are rooted, you can give another kernel a try.
Maybe stock, oc kernel like Stockbeats Kernel.
Don't forget the backup before.
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I already tried the Flashbeats ROM without success, did it use this kernel?
gibihr said:
I already tried the Flashbeats ROM without success, did it use this kernel?
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Flashbeats rom use Flashbeats kernel, Stockbeats kernel is a bit different to that. So maybe try and see if it helps.
I installed it buy still stuttering when i open browser while listening to music or turn on wifi
Maybe try to change oc, govenor and/or I/O scheduler.
If this also don't help, i have no idea atm.
gibihr said:
I installed it buy still stuttering when i open browser while listening to music or turn on wifi
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I have the same stuttering problem with stock JB rom and Poweramp and Google Play Music.
I haven't managed to find out cause or solution. Basically any third party music player is practically unusable.
Stock music player works perfectly, also to my ear with superior music quality, but not having gapless playback in 2013 is unacceptable. It's probably the only serious defect of the phone.
benotto said:
Same thing here, also with Poweramp (but Google Play Music has the same problem).
I haven't managed to find out cause or solution.
Stock music player works perfectly, also to my ear with superior music quality, but not having gapless playback in 2013 is unacceptable. It's probably the only serious defect of the phone.
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Exactly the same... and I am still hoping someone will find a solution i am no expert, but maybe the fact that with stock music player everything's fine means something...
old.splatterhand said:
Maybe try to change oc, govenor and/or I/O scheduler.
If this also don't help, i have no idea atm.
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I am using trickster mod to see if something changes, can you help me with the settings? I don't know what they mean, and where it would be affecting the music stutter..
Right now its settings are:
TCP congestion : cubic
Read Ahead Buffer size: 128
Scheduler: cfq
Block frequency: YES min 384000 max 1566000
Governor: ondemand (changed into performance a couple of times)
MP Decision OFF
Multicore energy saver:1
GPU -Governor: Ondemand
Max frequency 400
gibihr said:
I am using trickster mod to see if something changes, can you help me with the settings? I don't know what they mean, and where it would be affecting the music stutter..
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Sorry, i don't use Trickster mod. There must somebody else that tell you whats going on.
Hi.
FYI on stock kernel and rom, I tried winamp and there definitely was some stuttering.
On spotify or stock music player no problem at all though.
This behavior doesn't change after the update to Android 4.2. Play Music and Beyondpod still have the stuttering, only the stock music app works fine.
It is also becoming a more significant problem because not only the stock app does not support gapless reproduction, but also when I switched to the Google Now launcher (which I like better than Sense 5) I can no longer use the music widget.
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This behavior doesn't change after the update to Android 4.2. Play Music and Beyondpod still have the stuttering, only the stock music app works fine.
It is also becoming a more significant problem because not only the stock app does not support gapless reproduction, but also when I switched to the Google Now launcher (which I like better than Sense 5) I can no longer use the music widget.
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I solved with playerpro & DSP pack, setting audio buffer to maximum and audio priority to maximum + it supports gapless. I have tried millions of possibilities (kernels, deleting stock apps etc.) but this is the only one which seems to be working in my case. Poweramp stutters less than google play music but stutters anyway (even with high audio priority etc)
You can't get the music widget of the stock music player because it's only a sense widget works only on the sense launcher, unfortunately
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.
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