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This is the one thing I dislike about Apple Airpods. I also don't like the connection sound effect because it adds a needless 2 second delay. Would love to get rid of both sound effects.
Likely the delay is not because of the sound effect. But the other way around - they added the jingle to mask the delay.
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What does it do? Why do you want a bluetooth connection when you are trying to sleep?
You can use it to play music, I go with audio books. it's actually better at pairing with my iphone and ipad than my apple devices, which is wild. Product page: https://www.amazon.com/MUSICOZY-Headphones-Bluetooth-Everyth...
Why do the earbuds have the sound files in mp3 format rather than some raw uncompressed format? Doesn't this mean that the earbuds must now have a mp3 decoder? Is there a resource-usage argument for preferring mp3?
I dunno how big the sound files are, but mp3 is going to use a lot less storage than uncompressed PCM. Using a smaller flash chip saves money on the BOM. Bluetooth headphones already need to manage several formats to decode, and the chipset that does that may also decode mp3, and mp3 is easy to work with to prepare the files.
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I miss exactly two things from android on iOS. Both involve Bluetooth not sucking. The first one is that the minimum volume on my Bluetooth earbuds is too damn loud on iOS. This is true for every third party set of headphones I have tried. People have been complaining about this online for a decade. The EU even passed a law to make them fix it (spoiler alert: it did not work). FFS, min volume in the UI should map to…
> The first one is that the minimum volume on my Bluetooth earbuds is too damn loud on iOS. This is true for every third party set of headphones I have tried. That's wild. I've never experienced anything like that -- not with AirPods or Bose or a cheap brand TOZO. Are you sure it's not a problem with the earbuds themselves, that their minimum level is higher than it should be? If you've dug into it, what is the range…
What I found that helped was to create a custom Shortcut that "Set Media volume to 1%". iOS reports that this is 48 dB when playing pink noise. I managed to hit 47 dB when dragging to volume slider on iOS below 1%, but the Shortcuts app only seems to support integer percentages.
In my case, even the 1% volume level was too high in a quiet room, but some apps have a custom EQ setting that you can use to lower the volume further. E.g. if you're using Apple Music, you can go to Settings -> Music -> EQ and pick "Loudness" to lower the volume further.
NICE! Way to stick with it OP! Speaking of loud earbuds, I might have the opposite problem. I use Bose exercise earbuds on the treadmill at what I believe is a comfortable and conservative volume, but my iPhone gives me a notification that the volume is too high and I am wrecking my hearing. Is the phone correct? If so, I'd be willing to sacrifice a bit of enjoyment for a bit of ear health. However, there's a compell…
I don’t think the OS knows how many dB’s come out of the other end. My Boses act differently with different Bluetooth chipsets. On Linux I have to do 150% volume to hear much of anything
Man I wish someone would do this for my bluetooth sleep mask. It's pretty great except for one thing: When the battery is low or it's going to power off it announces it to you at full volume. On a sleep mask.
That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with the MSF time signal it'd make the same sound as the alarm for 2-3 seconds. You couldn't turn it off. This was invariably at 3AM or some horrible time. I eventually opened it up and cut the MSF…
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I dunno how big the sound files are, but mp3 is going to use a lot less storage than uncompressed PCM. Using a smaller flash chip saves money on the BOM. Bluetooth headphones already need to manage several formats to decode, and the chipset that does that may also decode mp3, and mp3 is easy to work with to prepare the files.
Bluetooth audio uses SBC codec by default (unless your device something modern like aac or apt-x) right? I imagine that there's probably some all-in-one decoding chip that includes various codecs.
So why does that decoding chip have mp3 decoding, and why use mp3 when you could just use SBC.
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Bluetooth audio uses SBC codec by default (unless your device something modern like aac or apt-x) right? I imagine that there's probably some all-in-one decoding chip that includes various codecs.
Yeah. So Bluetooth never uses mp3 for transmission as far as I am aware - it is simply not one of the codecs specified in the protocol. So why does that decoding chip have mp3 decoding, and why use mp3 when you could just use SBC.
Sure, you could store those clips in a more appropriate codec, but what do you gain? It's dead simple to encode an MP3, every audio editor from the last couple decades can do it. How common is SBC support?
If MP3 decoding is free, and MP3 encoding is free, why bother spending any effort at all on anything else? Sometimes good enough is good enough and cheap and easy wins over correct every time.