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One Sound itunes

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taskfinder99

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Oct 30, 2005
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Does anyone know how I can get my itunes to play in mono rather than stereo?

I need to run mono because one of my speakers has stopped working and now I am only getting the music coming from the left side of the stereo output.
 
try going to system preferences --> sound --> output then slide balance all the way to the right or left, im not sure if that will solve the problem or make no change at all.....but its worth a try.
 
Thanks for your suggestion, it sounds logical, but I can't find the balance option.

If I go Edit --> Preferences --> then a menu comes up with 9 tabs (General, ipod, Podcasts, Audio, Importing, Burning, Sharing, Store, Advanced) but no 'Sound' tab..?
 
taskfinder99 said:
Thanks for your suggestion, it sounds logical, but I can't find the balance option.

If I go Edit --> Preferences --> then a menu comes up with 9 tabs (General, ipod, Podcasts, Audio, Importing, Burning, Sharing, Store, Advanced) but no 'Sound' tab..?
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You need to go into System Preferences. You'll find it in your Applications folder or by going up to the Apple Menu and selecting 'System Preferences...' :)
 
taskfinder99 said:
Does anyone know how I can get my itunes to play in mono rather than stereo?

I need to run mono because one of my speakers has stopped working and now I am only getting the music coming from the left side of the stereo output.
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Dunno how good an idea this is, but try pulling the headphone jack out partially (so there is only one connection instead of the normal two). That might produce mono instead of stereo (or only one channel...). Alternatively, buy a miniplug (female) -> miniplug (male, mono) adapter, plug your stereo into the female end and connect the adapter to the computer.
 
CanadaRAM said:
Balance to one side != mono.
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yeah i just recorded to tracks in garageband, and panned them to extreme right and left. When sliding the balance in system preferences it did not produce a mono sound, BUT i could hear the oposite side very quietly (when it should have not been present at all).
 
Plenty of good reasons why people need this

yeah - so some of you aren't getting this. For some purposes, one needs to merge a stereo signal into a single mono audio - but output it through both channels of a stereo output. The result, if successful is listening on stereo headphones through a stereo outputting device (IE a laptop headphone 3.5 jack) but hearing both channels of stereo audio mixed into both ears. People need this if you are prepping for a mono PA audio rig for example and you need to monitor a mono signal - but through both of your ears!

Olden day hi-fis and even some headphones had a switch to take out the stereo signal if required. Not many people do seem to need this - so the service seems to have petered out. Shame that iTunes (and Macs) don't seem to have a check for it somewhere - since it's a service i needed this afternoon.

Yes, it's easy to create this with an external stereo to mono plug - but I didn't have one with me when I needed it. just thought I'd drop this in since some people on this thread have suggested using the balance control. This does not solve the problem since it cuts out one of the stereo channels and sends the remainder channel through one ear. I needed merged signal through both as did our initial friend on this thread.
 
Solution

This one is quite easy, I myself am deaf in one ear after getting shot in the head after a hunting accident so its quite obvious why I needed the feature. Just like on an iPhone, go to system preferences> universal access> hearing> and tick play stereo audio as mono. There done, easy as that, hope it helped.
 
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