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Switching portrait/landscape mode stops playback and resets Gnaural to its default preset(Android version)

2016-08-17T01:45:33.360000Z

As the title says, when I switch from/to portrait/landscape mode(both "directions") Gnaural stops playback and reloads its default preset, exactly like if I restarted it manually by closing it and restarting the app.

The phone I use is a Galaxy J7(2016) from Samsung, it's running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow(it seems to be only a retrocompatibility problem) and the screen is 5,5 inches wide if that helps. I'm running the paid version btw.

Thank you for the app and Gnaural.

opening and saving .gnural files on windows 8.1

2015-06-15T07:12:11.942000Z

Hi,
first of all, great piece of software, thanks for making it available :)

ok, there is a little issue with opening existing .gnural files (like the presets) and editing files.

This is probably due to the changes in how Windows handles files in the "/program files" folders.

The files are not actually saved in the same folder as the program, instead they are saved in the "C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Gnaural" (which is a hidden folder)

This means that when trying to edit the XML file Gnaural cannot actually find it and it asks to create a new one. Unfortunately it is also unable to save the file it offers to create unless it is started with admin permissions.

However, when you want to open a file created within the program, it will list it as long as you browse to it from within gnaural

Additionally Gnaural will not load presets unless they are either saved in the "/program files(86)/Gnaural" or in the folder I detailed above.

This is not a big problem for me, as I have now found where the files are saved (it took me a little while :)), but I thought you may want to know in case some users cannot find the files they create, and/or have issues loading preset files

I hope it all makes sense, don't hesitate to get in touch if you want more details :)

All the best
Angelo

Isochronic Pulses make clicks

2014-07-04T00:41:55.777000Z

Isochronic Pulses and Alt Isochronic Pulses make tick sounds that are probably lowering the effect. There is an envelope to limit the effect, but somehow it is not working properly. I had some improvement in reducing the clicks with:

BinuaralBeat.c

   #define max(a,b) (a)>(b)?(a):(b)
   //cur_beatfreq_data is used arbitrarily as a Modulator here (to reduce harmonics in transition between on and off pulses)
   if ((BB_Voice[voice].cur_beatfreq_phaseenvelope +=
        max(1.5/BB_Voice[voice].cur_beatfreq_phasesamplecount_start,
            .0005)) > 1)

For low beat frequency, the increase of the enevelope is much slower, but for higher beat frequencies, it still reaches 1 at 80% of the phase.
For higher frequencies the effect is still noticeable. I am no expert in psychoacustics, but possibly a kind of exponential function for the envelope could be a better idea.

Are you still interested in such improvements and suggestions?
Do you have a better idea for the problem?

Regards and thanks for gnaural!

Problem loading presets on Android

2014-06-17T13:05:46.025000Z

I have a problem accessing my presets on Android. On my stock Huawei Y300 (Android 4.1.1), it was fine. When I upgraded to Cyanogenmod 11 (4.4.3) it looks for /mnt/sdcard/, while I have /mnt/sdcard0/ (internal storage) and /mnt/sdcard1/ (actual SD card). I'm pretty sure I had the same mount points before when I was not having this problem!

Audio problems with gnaural2 openSUSE

2013-05-05T16:00:48Z

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but here it is:
I found that using the packman repository for gnaural2 didn't work with sound, but I found that doing the following got it to work:
1. make sure that alsa-oss is installed
2. change the open command in the application launcher to aoss gnaural2

This seems like a pretty easy fix to get gnaural2 to work out of the box if it could be changed in the repository

The place where I found out how to do this is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=863967

Thank you

Some files make annoying clicks only on playback

2013-01-09T06:48:15Z

Relevant files:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnaural/Presets/Mindstates/TibetanBowls.gnaural
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gnaural/Presets/Soundscapes/CricketsAndFrogs.gnaural

With the two provided gnaural presets, one can either hear annoying clicks or static-like noises during playback. These issues do not appear if the files are rendered to another format, so it is most likely a playback issue.

System tested on:
Arch Linux (normal kernel, 3.6.11)
Gnaural 1.0.20110606 (aur link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43882\)
portaudio portaudio 19_20111121-1

Relevant forum post that prompted investigation and has additional details: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1215009#p1215009

samsung galaxy s3 voice select bug

2012-12-11T14:32:32Z

When selecting which voices to play, I have to both uncheck and recheck a voice in order to actually uncheck it, and vica versa.

Worked perfectly on my old Htc Sensation.

when exporting to wav, individual channels merged

2011-06-02T23:08:20Z

Ver. 1.0.20101115
Exported file successfully, but when listening to left or right channel individually, the channels have been merged and both idividually oscillate

Problem with installation

2010-06-30T09:54:27Z

I've installed Gnaural but it keeps telling me the application failed to start because it cannot find iconv.dll - I tried reinstalling without success. I'm running Windows XP.

Missing iconv.dll file

2010-06-26T06:38:30Z

Error trying to start Gnaural. I have uninstalled and reinstalled latest versions of Gnaural and GTK+, but still see this error evey time.

Win7 Ultimate, 64-bit