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Poor Sound on Hudl?
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Hi all, hoping someone can help.
I bought a Hudl for a Xmas present for my mum to replace an arnova. On the whole have been happy with the Hudl until we went away a couple of weeks ago. When she tried to watch a movie on the plane she couldn't hear anything the sound was so low. We put different headphones in but still the same. Any ideas what to do?
Thanks
I bought a Hudl for a Xmas present for my mum to replace an arnova. On the whole have been happy with the Hudl until we went away a couple of weeks ago. When she tried to watch a movie on the plane she couldn't hear anything the sound was so low. We put different headphones in but still the same. Any ideas what to do?
Thanks
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It may or may not be possible to make the Hudl go louder. The nature of the source material you are listening to will also have an effect. But assuming you crank every level control you can locate up to 11 and it's still too quiet you may not have too many options.
A possible solution is an external headphone amp. OK not the ideal solution as it's another bit of kit to cart around but may be the only answer. For example..
www.amazon.co.uk/FiiO-E06-Portable-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B005HJWWW8/
Which is at least pretty small.
Would a different player make any difference do you think?
All you can really do is find somewhere that lets you try out various devices for yourself to hear how loud (or otherwise) they go. Though finding such a place may be the hard part. And comparing her Hudl to another similar one may be the only way to tell if hers is normal for the breed or faulty.
Either that or you go to the US and buy a player over there that doesn't have the EU restriction.
Maybe people haven't taken it on a plane yet so don't know they can't hear a thing.
Thanks for your help though.
Another question, do you know of an app that shows the titles of the tv programmes/movies that we've put on the hudl. So far it shows just thumbnails that you have to select to find out what they are.
I'm used to the ipad where you can see all the episodes listed straight away.
Hope I'm making sense.
I use player pro. It shows episodes as a list rather than images so you can see exactly what you have. I have mine all arranged in folders by TV show.
Thanks for the suggestion gomezz. Can you explain why that might help?
Yes it's free. However sorry I meant to say MX player not player Pro.
Player pro is what I use for my music.
Thanks again
I paid to upgrade but there's a free version which is almost as good as the paid one.
I've got the paid version (it was on sale) . However it never recognised my files as advertised. I've been trying to use it on Samsung devices though, maybe it works better on other devices.
Yes both MX player and Archos player can organise files on both External (SD) and internal storage.
Now to sort out the sound when using headphones and it'll be a great unit
geoff
Thanks geoff, will definitely give that a try. My mums going away in a few weeks so need to get something sorted by then.
Now you can hear it.
You have to do this every time you plug in earphones.
This needs a software fix.
Hi, thanks for the suggestion but we did that and on the plane it was still inaudible. We tried with different headphones too.