After Self-Driving Cars, Self-Tuning Sound Systems

Self-driving cars are getting more and more time under the spotlights of auto shows. Everywhere, manufacturers are bragging about their autonomous cars, capable of detecting dangers way before they represent any threat for the car and its passengers.

Intelligent cars are interesting, but other areas of our lives could benefit from such technologies. One of them, surprisingly, concerns how we listen to our music.

In fact, Gracenote, a company that develops different technological solutions for music storage and sharing, is currently working on software called “Dynamic EQ” that will automatically adjust the music you are listening to.

If you are not familiar with the term "equalizing," it means to adjust different sound frequencies in a song, in order to highlight a specific range of sound. For example, you can amplify bass in a given song to hear deeper notes. The same is true for high notes, such as violins in a classical symphony.

In reality, sound equalizing is infinitely more complex, which explains why expert technicians have gigantic consoles with a lot of buttons and switches.

Would you like to have such an expert with you, in your car, at all times? Gracenote presented software at the 2016 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) that will do just that. That program, which will integrate to your car’s infotainment system, will recognize any given song in the universe and automatically equalize the sound to provide to you the best audio experience possible, live, seamlessly.

Either you are listening to the radio, a CD or a MP3 file, the so-called “Dynamic EQ” will be your private audio technician.

It is scheduled to be released in 2020.