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TL;DR
- Code throughout the Hey Melody app factors to a brand new “Headphone recording” function. OnePlus and OPPO use the Hey Melody app to handle the settings of their earbuds.
- The “headphone recording” function would allow you to file sounds with the microphones current in your headphones whereas taking pictures a video. The function may additional have clear mode and immersive mode settings.
- This function is presently in growth and never out there to be used.
OnePlus makes some good telephones, but it surely additionally makes some good earbuds. The OnePlus Buds Professional 2 and the OnePlus Buds 3 have been acquired fairly effectively, with the latter being praised extra particularly for its worth proposition. It appears the corporate desires to make its earbuds extra helpful sooner or later, as we’ve noticed a brand new function that might help you shoot audio throughout a video recording by your earbuds.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly on work-in-progress code. Nevertheless, it’s potential that such predicted options could not make it to a public launch.
OnePlus (and, extra broadly, OPPO) ships the Hey Melody app that permits you to handle OnePlus and OPPO earbuds on non-OnePlus and OPPO smartphones. This app allows you to deal with all of the settings your earbuds help you customise with out locking you into OnePlus/OPPO smartphones. We’ve noticed new strings inside Hey Melody v114.3, giving us a good suggestion of what the corporate is engaged on for its future earbuds.
Code
<string title="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_hd_mode_summary">Excessive-definition recording. Authentically reproduces surrounding sounds.</string>
<string title="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_hd_mode_title">Clear mode</string>
<string title="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_immersive_mode_summary">Multi-channel encompass impact. Offers a wealthy and immersive audio expertise.</string>
<string title="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_immersive_mode_title">Immersive mode</string>
<string title="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_summary">Document sounds with the microphones in your headphones whereas taking pictures a video.</string>
<string title="melody_common_headset_shoot_earphone_record_title">Headphone recording</string>
<string title="melody_common_headset_shoot_record">Recording</string>As we will see from these strings, OnePlus is engaged on a brand new function known as “Headphone recording.” This function will allow you to file sounds with the microphones in your OnePlus (and OPPO) earbuds whereas video recording. This can presumably bypass the telephone’s microphone which is often used when recording a video.
The function can be additional complemented by a “clear mode” and an “immersive mode.” Clear mode will “authentically reproduce surrounding sounds” with “high-definition recording,” whereas immersive mode will present a “wealthy and immersive audio expertise” with a “multi-channel encompass impact.” It’s not instantly clear to us the distinction between the 2 modes (apart from one being expressly centered on stereo recording), so we should look ahead to OnePlus to roll out the function.
This function is presently nonetheless in growth. We’ve tried out the brand new model of Hey Melody with the OnePlus Buds Professional 2 and the OnePlus Buds 3, paired with the OnePlus 12 and the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely, and we couldn’t get the function to indicate up in any phone-earbud mixture.
We don’t know if and when OnePlus will launch this function, but it surely does sound like a pleasant function to have on earbuds. Some telephones, just like the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely, help you use Bluetooth (and, by extension, Bluetooth earbuds) as an audio recording supply when recording video in Professional mode. We presume this new function will help you use the earbuds as a recorder throughout extra units without having a handbook digital camera mode.
There’s a probability that this function might be restricted to OnePlus and OPPO smartphones, so we’ll have to attend to see how precisely OnePlus implements this function.
