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Yep me too,
I'm deaf in one ear and its becoming a drag converting everything into mono on my computer first, but unless I do this I miss the right channel.  There must be an audio player that will play stereo tracks in mono, right???  I cant find one though

Should be possible for somebody to write an app that can play an stereo file in mono not sure if anybody has done this though.  I am asking for something a bit more than this though the ability to down mix the master stream to Mono.  This would mean that you would be able to play games or listen to Spotify in mono too.

With the little bit of research I have done, I think what I am asking for is an extension to android.media.audiofx to include a Mono class.

This could then be applied to Session 0 which I think would achieve what I am describing.

I'm not deaf, but I do know that listening to stereo music on a device with one speaker straight blows.  Why this isn't part of the default music app or system wide is one hell of a mystery.

Alternatively an option in settings to force all sound to mono which is, although it pains me to say it, what ios does.  

Add me to the deaf in one ear club. I need noise reducing headset for work and I can't afford to get a custom headset. I tried wiring both channels into one speaker but you can't solder the newer speaker wires. A stereo to mono adapter doesn't work because you don't always get a good connection with a stereo plug in a mono jack. So I would need a stereo to mono then a mono to stereo to make it work which equals 3 inches of adapters out of the jack. This really should be a simple accessibility option!

I too would like to see this. I've have only one ear that works and I keep loosing my modified adapters that hard-merge the two channels at the wire.

I'm one of the 10% of the planet's population who hears less in one ear, and an audio pan balance control is essential for me.

I was delighted to see that Archos already have that feature in their Gen8 Android devices - please put it into 'vanilla' Android as well. I'm tired of using modified in-line volume controls with most portable devices that lack this basic audio feature.

Or at least, write somewhere in big bold letters : Android is not for the partially or totally deaf! Don't wait for your users to do that, please, or it could be labelled as bad publicity :(

I too am deaf in one ear and would dearly love this for all of my Android devices.
Please add this. Either as the base OS or even as an app. Anyone?

I agree too. My headphones are quieter in one ear and I want to rebalance them (like you can in Windows) so I can hear properly again.

I don't have any hearing problems, but this seems like it should be anan easy fix. Personally I would like to have this feature so I can listen to the Beatles or Ray Charles on the busted stereo at work that my boss is never gonna fix without it sounding like I am hearing the 'weird outtakes ' version.

iOS has it. Why android doesnt!?

Ridiculous that this isn't an option from the start, as it is in other devices, such as iOS. Personally, my headphones are damaged and can only use a single audio channel, so for now my Android is quite worthless for playing music.

Please add this, seriously disabling for being deaf in one ear

Holy cow, trying to find a way to get my music to play on my android in mono is impossible. I've looked everywhere for this feature. Sadly itunes has the feature to convert everything to mono when syncing to mobile device, and the IOS has the mono switch feature built in.

I am deaf in one ear, and a physical mono adapter is garbage. static in the loose connection and potential for clipping and damaging the device!

Please please please fix this!

oh and a way to rate my music and that tag the files would be epic too.

IOS able user to switch between L or R channel for speaker output. Even with the mono audio, Android lacks the function to switch between channels. This is the only disappointment that I see in Android compare to IOS.

My only working set of speakers right now is busted and only plays on one side.  I was searching for a quick fix, I figured that's the sort of thing that would be in the accessibility settings, for people with lopsided hearing (whose ranks I have already begun to join at a mere 25 years old).  I was wrong.  But it gets worse.  It's not supported at a very low level in the OS.  You can't even get an app for that.  No offense, because I'm sure these programmers and testers put in a full day's work like the rest of us, but how did nobody along the line stop and say, "what about accessibility for the partially deaf?"  That just seems like a fairly gross oversight.  It's made even worse by the fact that iOS has full support for mono, and it's not like android is brand new.  So, you dropped the ball on this one.  Now pick it up and put it back in play, before a whole lot of somewhat deaf people defect to the other team.

Just adding on since this has been a feature on iOS for some time and I'm delighted to have switched to Android after 5 years (3 iphones). I listened to some music this morning and I'm missing that Mono output accessibility feature already. Thanks in advance to the developers working on this.