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Audio mixing

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I couldn't figure out the right search terms to find it, so I'm posting a new thread.
No doubt many (if not all) of us have noticed that the audio subsytem is (conceptually) not multi-task -- i.e. it seems only able to play one sound channel at a time. There's no multichannel mixing. So, when listening to music, watching a video, etc., and an email, message, etc. come in, or anything else that triggers a sound notification, the media audio mutes while the notification plays, then the media audio unmutes.
This is highly annoying, and frankly very amateurish of Google. It's not like the functionality in question here is difficult and/or complex, and there's plenty of public domain code to make it work. Just laziness it seems to me.
Anyway, anybody know of a mod/fix, or that this will be fixed in Froyo? It's really bugging me.
I'm on the Syndicate ROM. Could be the ROM, but I seem to remember this problem when I was running stock too.

dwallersv said:
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I couldn't figure out the right search terms to find it, so I'm posting a new thread.
No doubt many (if not all) of us have noticed that the audio subsytem is (conceptually) not multi-task -- i.e. it seems only able to play one sound channel at a time. There's no multichannel mixing. So, when listening to music, watching a video, etc., and an email, message, etc. come in, or anything else that triggers a sound notification, the media audio mutes while the notification plays, then the media audio unmutes.
This is highly annoying, and frankly very amateurish of Google. It's not like the functionality in question here is difficult and/or complex, and there's plenty of public domain code to make it work. Just laziness it seems to me.
Anyway, anybody know of a mod/fix, or that this will be fixed in Froyo? It's really bugging me.
I'm on the Syndicate ROM. Could be the ROM, but I seem to remember this problem when I was running stock too.
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This may be a Honeycomb 3.0 (after Gingerbread 2.3) feature because I could see tablets needing to play more than one sound source at a time. And while we may eventually get a Gingerbread port. I doubt we will see Honeycomb.

sound sets

is their anyway that you can get sound sets like on sense for the atrix

Can somebody do me a favor?

I looked around the forum briefly, but I didn't find anything.
I'm currently on CM7 and I really don't care for the system sounds too much. Can someone running a sense Rom grab some files for me? I think you could just copy/paste them to the sd using astro. I'd like the alarm "snooze" (I sleep through cm7s buzzer sound ),the notification sound "major" (sounds like the super Mario 1up shroom), and there's a ringtone that sounds like a digital phone. I can't think of the name, but it's not the old school sounding ring.
Any help would be appreciated.

brivette007 said:
I looked around the forum briefly, but I didn't find anything.
I'm currently on CM7 and I really don't care for the system sounds too much. Can someone running a sense Rom grab some files for me? I think you could just copy/paste them to the sd using astro. I'd like the alarm "snooze" (I sleep through cm7s buzzer sound ),the notification sound "major" (sounds like the super Mario 1up shroom), and there's a ringtone that sounds like a digital phone. I can't think of the name, but it's not the old school sounding ring.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Download one of the several Sense ROMs on this site, then open the zip file, and go into the media folder and take all the sound files you want.

drumist said:
Download one of the several Sense ROMs on this site, then open the zip file, and go into the media folder and take all the sound files you want.
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Duh, I should have known that. It's been a very, very long day...
I still have zips for stock and liberated Roms, will have to dig them out tomorrow.
Thanks!

[Q] Sound on CM7

I'd like to think of myself as an audiophile. So before I moved to cm7, the voodoo sound was like magic to me. But it seems that on cyanogen its not well suited . Tried all the media players possible and still its no it.So maybe there is away to install the original sumsung player on cyanogen. And if anybody found a way to improve the sound plesae share with me.
By the way im using glitch kernel with voodoo as well

1) Search is your friend - USE IT. This has been asked hundreds of times already.
2) No stock apps will ever be available for CM7 - they all rely on the Samsung framework which will never be ported.

Is there any other solution ?

with last updates of cm7 they integrated voodoo sound in kernel

Yeah I saw that but still its crappy . The low's are cracky not enough mids. Tried the dsp manager but it's only make it worse tried the equalizer from the market same thing. Maybe there is a way to make "Galaxy Tuner " work on Cyanogen, i remember it boosted the bass real nice without cracknig it.

Sound Quality and new "Walkman"

Hey.
I was wondering what do you think about sound quality after latest LP update? And most important, what do you think about latest amazing retarded idea of dumping Walkman brand and making one of worst music app Sony created for past... well, they never had bad music player until now!
But before I write what I think about sound quality, I really, really need to say something about this "Music" Player.
>>Skip it if you dont care about walkman app<<
I always loved W series from Sony Ericsson, I had, and still have most of my older phones from this series. And because Im really fussy about sound quality and music player design I was a bit shocked after I saw Sony idea to remove Walkman name, and going to most lame excuse I ever read to rename app to.... Music...
I didnt install this app update when I had KitKat(dont mess with something that actually work) So after Installing LP I had time to see what they did to my most beloved app on my phone. And Im shocked how someone could destroy something with only really small changes.
At first nothing is changed, but what is most important are details.
After you open app everything is normal.
I never liked main page, its chaotic and beside good look its not usefull, but I never used it so I didnt care about it, I spend there only 1sec after opening app... untill this update...
Now everytime when Im listening something and Im clicking widget or icon, instead of going to current music player its moving me straight to main page... and to do something in actual player, I need to click lower bar to open it... annoying as hell.
Now lets look at most important part of player:
looks simple and good right? its change color depend on cover, and it have big buttons. But beside that they ripped fewparts that was good about walkman player. First of all they removed Favorite icon(star) that I, and lost of people I know liked, because it was quick way to select your favorite track. Now this option is in lame, small duplicated menu as a text.
About that menu. Why they putt menu dots in lower right corner if you can access menu just by clicking album art? I have no idea...
But thats not everything!
How about SECOND menu in top right corner!
You thought that all? HELL NO! we have THIRD setting menu!
Because Sony love Mario, and they though that it would be funny to say to users: "Sorry, but setting that you look for is in another Menu!"
So now not only they make chaos in settings, remove one of simplest fav option, but they forgot about.... simple and quick option to see current playlist. You can only click artist name to go to page of his album, or you need to swype left to select current playlist menu, that sometimes doesnt count what you selected, and sometimes add track to end of the list and sometimes to next track on the list... no one know how this "magic" work...
Now how about burying one of best option that compared to other similar options, actually work good: Sense Me playlist...
Instead of putting this option as a one of main feature, they buried it in playlist menu...
Seriously, most of similar apps that sets music by mood work weird or need weird scan everytime to play something.
Of course its not perfect but still better than others, and I never had weird track placement when I used it.
Now most important: Sound quality options.
As most of you know, they removed few important options that bump volume in our XZ, but they also messed up rest of settings.
As I mentioned they moved sound settings to weird place.
Its look simple but still its a bit pain to use it, especially Headphones option:
From this list, I have MH-EX300AP and STH30, and with or without ClearAudio+ options, settings for those specific headphones work like cra#p.
EX300 options make sound more centered and with huge boost of middle parts, and STH30 option make sound more muffed with too much bass.
Rest of options except bumping middle parts and squeezing scene to middle doesnt do anything.
<<< - End of the less important Rant about Walkman Player... sorry, "Music" Player - >>>
Now lets talk about actual quality of the sound on Xperia Z with LP.
For most of the day I use my good old JVC HA-S600 that have best quality-price-mobility ratio I ever had, but also I use mentioned before MH-EX300AP for outdoor and in home a bit used Beyerdynamic DT 770s(look like **** but sound is still amazing)
And no matter what I have on my hears, sound compared to what I got in KK is just a bit worst in LP. Its still have nice amount of details for most of time, and at least its dont sound like old radio.
But overall quality is weird, especially wide scene. I tried messing with EQ, ClearAudio+ still sound much flatter, and middle parts behave weird, when there is much going on, on the scene its lost all details and its just plain hum that sometimes move to high levels.
I have my two favorite test tracks (Aphex Twin "Vordhosbn" and Bruno Coulais "La marche" Himalaya OST ) and I know those tracks like my own hand, so after I played them on LP it was obvious for me that something is not right. Those tracks are really heavy for every headphones and player, they have all necessary parts to hear whats going on: One is loud with good amount of bass, and other is really soft and have really wide scene with different vocals. And especially in La marche you hear that now xperia is WAY flatter than before.
And as I said Im using Walkman almost my whole "life with phone", And I never encounter such problem with it.
Now I really dont know if its because of new player or because of this update.
Its not big deal, probably 90% of you dont hear any difference except loudness, but just like with camera those small changes make people crazy if they use this all the time and they know what it should look/sound.
Sooner or later Im gonna back to 4.3 but now I was wondering if its my specific xperia z got that (even if I installed LP two times for test purposes)

from my opinion.. i think my phone sounds better in LP than KK or JB.. the sound is more clearer.
BUT
At the bad side, the soubd is toooooooooo low and i hate the interface of new music player where i need to take more step than before to go to sound enhancenent.. And there is no PlayList like before.. I need to go to Music Main Menu to access all my song list... Damn Sony... Damn! return my walkman where i can choose my song to play without skipping one by one or go to main menu just to select what song do i want to hear... :banghead:
Sent from my C6502

sound volume was really low on kk xp. z but on lollipop it's even worse. and yes, i miss the walkman, too.

There is a mod for sound here in the themes frame that makes the sound louder again

Well... All of you should know by now that with every update we lost some functionality from before. I noticed this on all Android phones I have had till now... ?
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