Shuffle and Equalizer

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Shuffle and Equalizer

I thought that you can change the equalizer settings of songs in the itunes library,so that it is transfered to the shuffle.But when I choose,for example "loudness" then I hear the change when I play the song out of the itunes library,but the sound doesn´t change on the ipod.When I change the settings of the equalizer,itunes is saying that it is updating my shuffle and that I must not disconnect.When updating,itunes shows that it is the title I changed the equalizer settings for.But there is no difference when playing songs of the ipod.I thought that you can adjust the sound over the equalizer of itunes cause the shuffle doesn´t have an EQ.What is it for when it is not affecting the sound.Normal ipods have their own EQ.So there it is not necessary.
Can someone help me.

Posted on Sep 19, 2005 3:14 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 19, 2005 8:31 PM in response to Stefan Schroll

IPod shuffle does not have EQ built-in, and it doesn't read EQ settings from iTunes. If you really need songs to be EQed, you might want to use wave editor to EQ the wave file, then encode wave file into AAC or MP3 to use with iPod.

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Answer 2

Sep 28, 2005 11:27 AM in response to Stefan Schroll

So...somewhat related question: Then what does Sound Enhancer do?

I've Googled and the only info I can easily find is about how I should turn it off to solve this or that problem. It must have a function, or at least a purported one ; )

I bought the Griffin earbud attachments so that the Shuffle's headphones wouldn't fall out of my ears constantly, and they really muffle the sound. I was hoping to at least partially solve that through EQ. There has to be an way easier than EQing source files!

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

Jamie

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Answer 3

Dogan

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Sep 28, 2005 2:19 PM in response to Kirk Lawrence

Sound Enhancer attempts to balance out the volumne of the songs in your library.

For example if one song was recorded with real low audio, it will raise the volumne for that song.

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Answer 4

Sep 28, 2005 9:05 PM in response to Dogan

Dogan, I think you confused Sound Enhancer with another function, I think it's called Auto Volume Leveling or something. What Sound Enhancer actually does I am not sure. What I can notice is that when Sound Enhancer turned on, stereo imaging tend to be wider (clearer seperation between left and right speaker), and some more bass and treble. I am not sure if this setting can be transported into shuffle or not.

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Answer 5

Sep 28, 2005 9:23 PM in response to Dogan

OK I remember now, the auto volume leveling is actually called "Sound Check".

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Answer 6

Sep 29, 2005 7:07 AM in response to Stefan Schroll

Sound Check has been enabled in Shuffles with the new iPod update--I use it and like it a lot.

If Sound Enhancer boosts the bass and the treble, I'll definitely not use it as I'm trying to boost the treble only.

So, I'm assuming there's no way to EQ songs on the iPod Shuffle without EQing the original song files before transfer?

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Answer 7

Oct 2, 2005 9:45 AM in response to Kirk Lawrence

Yes, I guess so. And Sound Enhancer won't transfer to iPod shuffle anyway according to my knowledge.

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