I have always had more hearing loss in my left ear than right ear. Lately, not being terrifically young any more, it's been giving me problems using headphones. Not only do I miss some of the violins on the left (I'm a classical nut), but I get weird sensations that the music is out of tune. With speakers there's no problem because all sound reaches both ears.
In case anyone else has a similar issue, there is a way to change stereo flacs to mono on the fly. This solves both the violin issue, and the out of tune issue, at the cost of 'the stage'. For me that's a no-brainer - the music is what matters.
So, on linux I edited file /etc/squeezeboxserver/custom-convert.conf to include:
Where the 00:04... text is the mac of my Touch. This line converts flacs to flacs with only one channel when playing on that device. I have checked that both channels are still present, but merged, and they are both there, just played in mono.
I'm fortunate in that my pre-amp, fed by the Touch, is also directly supported by the UPnP bridge as a different player, so I can play stereo or mono as I wish by selecting the appropriate player.
I assume something similar will work on Windoze. I hope no one else needs it, but if you do, this is one solution,
In case anyone else has a similar issue, there is a way to change stereo flacs to mono on the fly. This solves both the violin issue, and the out of tune issue, at the cost of 'the stage'. For me that's a no-brainer - the music is what matters.
So, on linux I edited file /etc/squeezeboxserver/custom-convert.conf to include:
Code:
# FLAC output for mono to Touch
flc flc * 00:04:20:22:70:65
# IR
[sox] -q -t flac $FILE$ -t flac -c 1 -I'm fortunate in that my pre-amp, fed by the Touch, is also directly supported by the UPnP bridge as a different player, so I can play stereo or mono as I wish by selecting the appropriate player.
I assume something similar will work on Windoze. I hope no one else needs it, but if you do, this is one solution,