Tinnitus music trainer

About Tinnitus app

Tinnitus Music Trainer is application designed with aim to reduce the tinnitus while listening to your favorite everyday music. It is made for people that have tinnitus in hearing loss region.

It consists of two parts. In first part of the app user should determine his tinnitus frequency by consecutive playing short sounds of different (adjustable) frequencies, until he finds the best match to his tinnitus frequency.

In second part user should select a song from his iPod library and modify its contents. The modification is the essential part of the app. Music content is slightly changed, in order to make specially tailored song, adjusted to previously determined tinnitus frequency.

About Tinnitus

Tinnitus can affect the entire life of an individual, can prevent intellectual work, and impair the quality of life in general. Tinnitus is defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI, 1969) as “the sensation of sound without external stimulation”.

There are two main kinds of tinnitus objective and subjective tinnitus. Objective tinnitus is caused by sounds generated in the body and conducted to the ear. It may be caused by turbulence of blood flow or muscle contractions. Individuals with subjective tinnitus have no visible signs of disease, and the disease has few detectable physical correlates. Objective tinnitus may be detected by an observer using auscultation, whereas subjective tinnitus can only be observed by the person who has the tinnitus.

Subjective tinnitus can have many forms: it can be high frequency sounds similar to the sounds of crickets, like a high- or low-frequency tone, and constant or pulsatile. Tinnitus can be present at all times or can appear only sometimes. However, it is usually not possible to relate a specific event to the appearance of tinnitus.

Tinnitus is common: about 20% of people between 55 and 65 years old report symptoms on a general health questionnaire, and 11.8% on more detailed tinnitus-specific questionnaires.

As of yet, the exact cause of most forms of tinnitus is not entirely clear. Tinnitus is a symptom, not a disease,so many different factors may lead to tinnitus. The most common cause is noise-induced hearing loss.

Many treatments for tinnitus have been claimed, with varying degrees of statistical reliability:

Drugs and nutrients, Electrical stimulation, Surgery, External sound, Psychological

Tinnitus user manual

1. Start application
2. Press New Profile button if you don’t have profile or if you have very old profile because it is possible that your tinnitus frequency has changed. [img #1]
3. Play all 13 frequencies until you find one that is matched (sounds same) to your tinnitus
4. You can perform fine-tuning if you want to determine your tinnitus frequency more precisely using +1, +10,+100,-1, -10,-100 buttons [img #2]

   

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5. Write your name in textbox and press Save button
6. Press Profiles to go to list of your profiles
7. Select desired profile [img #3]
8. To delete old profiles press Edit – click on Delete button next to profile you want to delete– press Done
9. Press Select song button
10. Select song from list [img #4]
11. Turn Music switch OFF if you want to hear only signal added to music
12. Set intensity of added signal using slider so you can listen to music comfortably

    

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13. Press Convert button
14. It is possible to turn repeat off, to play and pause song and to move forward and backward song using slider.