[HTC 10 Themes, Apps, and Mods] ABQNM:
Yeah the build.prop has the low latency references disabled, but somehow Rdio still seems to be able to override this and use it anyway. I had been wondering why Dolby (before I switched to V4A due to the distortion being amplified by my car audio system, which is too bad, as Dolby gave the alert/ring tones extra depth and made them sound really cool) didn't seem to work on Rdio and why the audio would sound strange when I got a notification. It must have been changing playback devices, so for a few seconds Rdio would be affected by Dolby before it switched back to the low latency device. I initially thought it was Dolby crashing and restarting, but then I realized it was having no effect on Rdio at all, so I just let it be. Now I know what was happening. If I could only figure out how to force it to not use the low latency device now. Oh well.

Thanks again. Everything else works great and aside from the kernel, this mod is absolutely required. I appreciate the hard work you and your collaborators have put into it.

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Unfortunately there is no direct shortcut to it, even with Nova. The closest I can get is directly to the sound settings, which I already have. There is no way I have found to directly toggle it unless someone happens to know if there is a public intent to do it, and the name of the intent so I can create a toggle with Tasker.

As for the player, I'm already on AwesomePlayer. I disabled NuPlayer on day 1 due to the YouTube issues.

[MENTION=4645599]One-M8-Master[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4388232]ZeroInfinity[/MENTION] I forgot they just used the BoomSound name on the M8. The M7 still has BoomSound speakers, but they also had the marketing boost of "Beats Audio." BoomSound is actually the name HTC uses for all their devices with front facing stereo speakers, including the M7. They just dropped Beats Audio from the M8 since HTC sold their share in Beats by the time the M8 was released. I'm sure the equalizer tuning is slightly different, but generally speaking they aren't far off.

They never should have made it optional on the speakers on the M7, but I know why they did. It was for marketing. It was so the salesperson could demonstrate how much better Beats Audio was by playing music over the speakers with Beats turned off (which sounds absolutely horrible--by design) and then turned on--the only way it the speakers are meant to be used. But with the M7 and M8 side by side, aside from a slight volume increase in the M8 speakers, they sound pretty much the same (as long as Beats is enabled on the M7). I bet if we had access to the contracts for the HTC/Beats partnership (which began for the M7 before HTC because part owner), there would be some clause in there saying that you have to be able to disable Beats on the speakers to demonstrate how great Beats is. I remember that at launch, there was speculation that the equalizer profile was tuned to make the speakers sound worse with Beats off just to increase the sales appeal of Beats Audio.

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