Holy carp, have you tried Rockbox's 5G iPod Hardware EQ? - Page 3

If someone else could try this on Kruder & Dorfmeisters 'Jazz Master' on K&D Sessions and let me know your findings I'd appreciate it.

Most players uses the same chipseries and the amp is integrated in many of the chips and so on so I can't understand how much it can vary between different players with the same chip anyway. The flash memory based iaudios uses quite cheap sigmatelchips which aren't said to be so awesome, but still they have a reputation for beeing good. They have a bunch of BBE effects which I don't know if they help. Old iRivers on the other hand uses philipschips which are supposed to be good, new iRiver flash based players uses not as good Samsung chips.

Sonys players might be good or not, I don't care, they are crap anyway due to the sonicstage **** software.

Regarding iPods it probably depends on the modell, if I remember correctly for example the shuffle has the same chips as the iAudios so you would suppose they would be similair.

In a technical test I read Samsung YP-5Z was the only player uses sigmatels latest chips which are supposed to be great, and it owned most of the technical aspects, there is some small brand more which uses the same chips and creative will use or have already started to use them.

I think the larger ipods often use telesync chips which also can be found in the iaudio u3 (don't know if it's the same modell thought.)

Is the hardware equilizer only valid for 5th generation ipods? or is it accessible for all rockbox players?

I used to to use rockbox on both ipod 4th generation, which is on its way to Vinnie, and iriver 120 and I don't remember seeing something called hardware equalizer. Could someone please clarify?

Also, what does it mean to "set the 'pre-cut' on the software EQ to -12dB" ?

Thanks!

Thanks AtheisticFreedom!

Are there any plans of implementing the same feature (hardware equalizer) for ipod 4th generation? Aren't all ipods using Wolfson chip? I know they are not the same exact chip but shouldn't they be similar in that regard?

BTW, when you turn on replaygain on RB, does it mean it can read replaygain from foobar and alike or does it mean that it has its own replaygain software (i.e. like foobar)?

And still looking if someone could explain what "pre-cut" is?

Thanks everyone for your input

I'd say precut is more or less a flat cut of all frequencies by some amount of db's, like say dropping the whole level of a song uniformly -10db. You do this so that when you apply +8dB on the bass and +3dB on the highs (for example) it doesn't distort. It's my understanding that subtractive EQ'ing usually results in better sound quality. want more bass and more treble? usually, the best option isn't to boost those frequencies, but rather decrease the midrange.

it's due to the lack of proper support of id3v2.4 from itunes. foobar sticks to the specifications of the tag format (and is by consequence a better software, at least for me) whereas itunes uses a bunch of dirty hacks (as many other software and dap firmware) to render those tags.

the solution would be to use mp3tag to turn those id3v2.4 tags into id3v2.3, a standard far more supported. but beware, foobar (0.9xxx versions) CAN'T write (but can read) id3v2.3 tags.

I'm pretty sure it's 5G only because that's the only iPod to contain the Wolfson chip that supports the hardware EQ? I'm just guessing here, but that's what would make sense to me.

Boo hoo, i cant try out hardware EQ yet because i cant complie and i NEED my scrubber support from a older build

great stuff, will keep my eye on that.

I'm getting skipping while simply browsing music while its playing. The battery life is too short to keep Rockbox no matter the sound improvement.

Well I saw that they have a chooser you can use to switch back and forth between iPod OS and Rockbox, so I think it'll stay on mine.

Also I don't think that the UM2s like the crossfeed feature. Seems to really bassify (yeah its a word) everything just a wee bit more than it should.

Haven't moved beyond my 2 test tracks yet.

noob, out.

is there a release that takes advantage of the 60gig ipods 64mb flash mem?


it would be nice if it had album art support aswell.