Latest MixZing Update Beats Everyone to Market With EQ Features
If there’s one thing everyone’s been missing from Android’s music playback experience, it’s equalizer features. Some people may be just peachy with throwing their MP3s onto their storage provider of choice and playing them back, but audiophiles (like myself) would love to tweak the sound to best match our listening tastes. Mixzing’s helping to fill that gap with the latest version of their media player available now in the Android market.
EQ in their app is nothing unfamiliar: you’re given the standard set of frequencies and bands to play around with, among other things. There are presets, but the selection right now is minimal (with no current option to save your own). There’s also the ability to apply the EQ settings for all of your songs, specifically for an entire album, or just for one song.
The feature only supports MP3 files for now – and the developer urges you to use the feature with caution as Mixzing will tax the CPU more than usual while using it (my HTC EVO 4G struggled to play the songs without intermittent skips with the EQ enabled, particularly when switching between apps and screen orientation) – but they’re hard at work on continuing optimization and adding more features and supported filetypes over time. MixZing can be found in the Android market now in both free (ad-supported) and paid versions.
[Update]: Attempting to return to my homescreen prompted me with a message stating that the EQ feature does not work if MixZing is not the active application. This is an error on Android’s part and MixZing’s urging you to help bring it to Google’s attention. In order to push Google to fix this bug, go ahead and star the issue here.