desktop music players . iTunes on the other hand, acts a bit smart in these kinds of situations. iTunes allows user to set different equalizer settings for every single song they have in the 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 individual tracks but first let’s start with some basics here.
How to Configure Equalizer in iTunes
Click on View—> Show Equalizer to open iTunes equalizer. You can go ahead and put a check against On to turn on the equalizer effects. By default, iTunes comes configured with many sound effect presets and you can simply click on the drop-down menu and select one of the effects. The effect will be applied to all the songs that will then be played in iTunes instantly. If you have knowledge on adjusting the six-Band equalizer manually, you can select the Manual option from the drop-down menu and slide the bands using the mouse. You can also edit a preset directly and iTunes will automatically change the mode to manual mode. When things look perfect, you can select the option Make Preset in the list and save the newly configured settings. If you need to edit the name of a preset for the sake of simplicity, click on the Edit list option.
Setting Different Equalizer Settings Song-wise
Now the thing is, when you set some sound effects here, it’s applied to all the songs in your library, and that’s the case with almost all the music players out there. But as I already mentioned that iTunes is way smarter; you can easily configure different equalizer effects for distinct songs. To set different equalizer modes for tracks, we will first have to activate the particular attribute. On iTunes right-click on the top bar, the one that holds Name, Title, Artist, etc. and select Equalizer from the menu. You will notice that each track will have an equalizer attribute right next to it with a small arrow. To select different equalizer for a song, simply click on the arrow and select the one you think will suit track the best. The list will hold all user created effects as well. That’s all, whenever iTunes plays the particular track with custom equalizer settings, it will change automatically. Once the track is finished EQ settings will be restored to default for the next track.
Conclusion
I am sure you will find this trick pretty useful when you need to make a continuous playlist for a party, and you would like Rock for heavy metals and Pop for the cool pop songs you have queued up in the list. Yes, there’s a bit of manual effort needed at first, but after that you need not worry about changing them each time. Top Image Credits: impresa.mccabe
