How many times have you manually changed the player’s equalizer settings when switching to a different song? Chances are you’ve been doing it for a long time. Since most of us listen to all kinds of songs (read different genres), it doesn’t make sense to set a universal equalizer preset for each song, which is what is provided with most
desktop music player
.
On the other hand, iTunes works a bit smart in such situations. iTunes allows users to set different equalizer settings for each song they have in their library and remembers the settings even when you launch iTunes next time.
Sounds interesting? So let’s see how we can set up different equalizer settings for each individual track but let’s start with some basics here first.
How to Configure Equalizer in iTunes
Click View—> Show Equalizer to open the iTunes equalizer. You can go ahead and tick Enable to enable the equalizer effect. By default, iTunes is configured with many sound effect presets, and you can simply click the drop-down menu and choose one of the effects. The effect will be applied to all songs that will then be played in iTunes immediately.
If you have knowledge on how to manually adjust the six-band equalizer, you can choose manual option from the drop-down menu and slide the strips with the mouse. You can also edit the preset directly and iTunes will automatically change the mode to manual mode.
When everything looks perfect, you can select the Make Preset option in the list and save the newly configured settings. If you need to edit the name of a preset for simplicity, click List editing options.
Set different equalizer settings Song-wise
Now the point is, when you put some sound effect here, it will be applied to all the songs in your library and that is the case with most of the music players out there. But as I mentioned that iTunes is much smarter; you can easily configure different equalizer effects for separate songs.
To set different equalizer modes for the tracks, we will have to enable the specific property first. On iTunes, right-click on the top bar, which contains Name, Title, Artist, etc., and select Equalizer from the menu. You’ll notice that each track has an equalizer property right next to it with a little arrow.
To select a different equalizer for a song, simply click the arrow and select the equalizer you think best suits the track. The list will also contain all user-created effects. That’s all, whenever iTunes plays a particular track with custom equalizer settings, it changes automatically. When the track ends, the EQ settings will be restored to defaults for the next track.
Conclusion
I’m sure you’ll find this trick quite useful when you need to create an ongoing playlist for a party and you want Rock for the heavy metal and Pop for the great pop songs you’ve lined up for. list. Yes, it takes a bit of manual effort at first, but then you don’t need to worry about changing them every time.
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