How to Listen to Stereo Music and Podcasts With One Earbud

Sometimes you want to play music, podcasts, or audiobooks, but you need one ear open to the world, so you only put in one earbud. But if aSteamed Hams song, podcast orbinaural dub ASMR dub of Steamed Hams sounds in stereo, then some sounds only come out through the earphone you are not using. To hear everything, you can flip a switch in the accessibility settings of your phone or computer.

On iOS

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility (in the third block of options)
3. In the Hearing section, click Audio / Video.
4. Enable mono audio

On Android

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility
3. In the Audio and Screen Text section, enable mono audio.

On Mac

1. Open System Preferences
2. Click Availability
3. In the ” Hearing ” section on the left, click ” Audio”.
4. Click Play Stereo as Mono.

On Windows

1. Open settings
2. Click Ease of Access.
3. Click More Options
4. Enable monaural audio

Both audio channels will now play in both headphones. So you can hear every ringing and ringing of Pink Floyd’s “Money” or both sides of the conversation in a beautiful scripted podcast , even if you have one earphone dangling from your head.

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