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Question for the founders:

I'm completely deaf in one ear. But, I can't use normal headphones - the sound coming in on my right (bad) ear causes some health issues. As a result, I usually cut the right earbud wire entirely. This seems like a really dumb solution.

Does SoundFocus let me make all the sound come into the left earbud?

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keiferski, SoundFocus doesn't do this today. But stay tuned, we are working to help people who have single ear hearing loss as well.

I'm actually interested in learning more about your particular use case, I'll drop you a line on the email address in your HN profile.

Thanks, and feel free to email me!

iOS can do this natively. Under the accessibility settings, select "mono audio".

No; that will make the sound the same through both earphones which isn't what the parent poster had in mind. iOS does solve the problem natively though (I believe): it has a left-right balance slider, so you can just push it all to one side, then sound will only come out of one earphone.

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