New Monaural1.42 - App Store

New Monaural is a music player app which has a special monaural playback functionality. It allows you to enjoy natural-sounding music even if listening stereo track through a single side of your headphones.

While this feature does function as a stereo to monaural converter, it differs from typical monaural conversion in that it mixes the left and right channels within a sound space to reproduce the balance which those with unilateral hearing loss experience when listening to music normally (without headphones).

Of course, regular stereo playback is possible as well. The app can be used as a typical music player.

When using the New Monaural Mode to perform special monaural playback, use headphones to enjoy playback with one ear.
[Other Features]

- LR Concordance Rate
Analyze the data of songs in stereo to provide analysis on how the rate that the same sounds are played on the left and right channels (LR Concordance Rate) changes.
Visually see how the sound localization for recorded tracks is laid out.

- Analytics
View user-submitted LR Concordance Rates by genre.
[Songs that support the special playback function]

The special playback function can only be used for music files that have been saved on your device under the following conditions:
- The song has been synchronized with the device in iTunes (e.g., the file was imported from a CD)
- The song was purchased on the iTunes Store, and was downloaded using the standard Music app on iOS
[Notice]

- If you are using iClound Music Library, above songs may not be used in special playback function because DRM will be applied to these.
- Special playback function cannot be performed on songs provided through Apple Music or that are only saved on the cloud.
- If you use iTunes Match and the song is only saved on the cloud, you will first need to download the song using the standard Music app on iOS.
The functions implemented in this app are to be used to enjoy music. They are not for the purpose of improving deafness or other issues. (They have no medical efficacy.)

Version History - Performance improvements
- Fixed minor bugs 1.42 03/18/2020 - Small bug fixes 1.41 02/08/2020 - Supported Dark Mode on iOS 13
- Fixed an issue that the play buttons not working on Songs Of The Day screen 1.4 10/12/2019 Fixed an issue that the playback sound becomes no-sound when the device screen turns to off while playing local tracks on STEREO/MONO modes with the device speaker or wired headphones. 1.32 09/09/2019 - Fixed minor bugs that cause app crash 1.31 09/06/2019 Supported Apple Music. Now you can search, play and add to library Apple Music albums/songs directly.
*Your Apple Music subscription required.
*The special playback function can't be used for Apple Music songs. 1.30 09/03/2019 Fixed the issue that iTunes Store search always returns no result. 1.25 05/30/2019 Fixed minor bugs 1.24 05/17/2019 Fix an issue that the app can't play track which belongs to Apple Music playlist. 1.23 05/01/2019 - Improved the behavior when the headphone is plugged out from the device
- Minor bug fixes 1.22 03/11/2019 - Fixed a crash bug which occurs on FEATURES screen
- Several optimizations for thumbnail images 1.21 02/08/2019 - Sound engine update for iOS 11 or later
- Many bugfixes 1.2 02/05/2019 Fixed a crash bug in the player screen in case of specific file formats. 1.13 01/13/2019 - Fixed an issue that some graphs are not displayed correctly on Song Of The Day. 1.12 01/11/2019 - Fixed an issue that graphs does not show up on the "Song Of The Day" screen
- Fixed a minor bug regarding mini player bar 1.11 12/14/2018 - Improved loading speed of "Song of the day" and "Analytics"
- Minor bug fixes 1.1 11/28/2018 1.01 11/09/2018