Player device with automatic settings

Abstract

The invention relates to a multimedia player device for playing multimedia with automatic sound and video settings, and particularly a player device for playing sound from a data file, capable of automatic equalizer setting based on meta-data contained in the data file. The player device (1) comprises: a decoder (3) for extracting meta-data from a data file (2) further containing sound data; a control unit (4); a sound reproduction system (5) with an equalizer (6), adapted to reproduce sound from the sound data; wherein the control unit (4) is adapted to control the equalizer (6) with regard to tone control in dependence of the meta-data, suitably genre information. A number of predefined equalizer settings may be used automatically by the device.

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