Music player with good equatilization? [Was "Simple Equalization"]

lardon · 2008-12-13 12:29:32

Hello all,

I'm looking for a simple way to adjust treble/bass system-wide on my Arch laptop. I'm currently using alsa, but I'm open to other solutions.

Any insight? Bonus points for KISS-compliant solutions ;-)

Last edited by lardon (2008-12-17 12:57:24)

tuomas · 2008-12-13 16:10:04

I'm also trying to do the same thing, well, primarily only with mpd but I assume it would be possible to use this with almost anything. I'll post my progress here instead of creating a new thread since our goals are similar (and I've hit a brick wall)

I installed pulseaudio, and set up my asound.rc as such

pcm.equalized {
  type plug
  slave.pcm "equalizer";
}

pcm.equalizer {
  type ladspa

  # The output from the EQ can either go direct to a hardware device
  # (if you have a hardware mixer, e.g. SBLive/Audigy) or it can go
  # to the software mixer shown here.
#slave.pcm "hwplug"
  slave.pcm "emu10k1"
  #slave.pcm "plug:dmix"

  # Sometimes you may need to specify the path to the plugins,
  # especially if you've just installed them.  Once you've logged
  # out/restarted this shouldn't be necessary, but if you get errors
  # about being unable to find plugins, try uncommenting this.
  path "/usr/lib/ladspa"

  plugins [
    {
      label mbeq
      id 1197
      input {
       #this setting is here by example, edit to your own taste
       #bands: 50hz, 100hz, 156hz, 220hz, 311hz, 440hz, 622hz, 880hz, 
       #       1250hz, 1750hz, 25000hz, 50000hz, 10000hz, 20000hz
       #range: -70 to 30
        controls [ -1 -1 -1 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 -5 0 0 ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.emu10k1 {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.emu10k1 {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.hda-intel {
type hw
card 1
}
ctl.hda-intel {
type hw
card 1
}

and in /etc/pulse/default.pa I made sure to use

load-module module-alsa-sink device=equalized

mpd is set to output to the pulseaudio server using the mpd-pulse package, and in the paman GUI I can see it is working fine, the problem is no matter what I change my equalizer settings to (as you can see I just put a load at max as a test) and restart pulseaudio, the sound remains the same.

I guess it's a problem under pcm.equalizer but I can't be entirely sure.

lardon · 2008-12-15 09:35:40

bump

lardon · 2008-12-17 12:59:13

Ok, since nobody seems to know how to do system-wide equalization with alsa in a simple way, maybe I will lower my expectations a bit.

Does anyone know a media player with good and reliable equalization? (NOT limited to mp3 like xmms). Bonus point for a player that does both audio and video

Wintervenom · 2008-12-17 14:43:36

Audacious (audacious-plugins) has a LADSPA plug-in. You can use this to set your equalizer settings graphically, then copy the equalizer values into your .asoundrc.

As for a player that has one built-in, there is Banshee. It can play audio and video (except for video object-format video). Unfortunately, Banshee is a bit on the heavy side.

Last edited by Wintervenom (2008-12-17 14:49:31)

lardon · 2008-12-24 15:02:25

Banshee is great! Thanks for your answer.

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#1 2008-12-13 12:29:32

Music player with good equatilization? [Was "Simple Equalization"]

#2 2008-12-13 16:10:04

Re: Music player with good equatilization? [Was "Simple Equalization"]

#3 2008-12-15 09:35:40

Re: Music player with good equatilization? [Was "Simple Equalization"]

#4 2008-12-17 12:59:13

Re: Music player with good equatilization? [Was "Simple Equalization"]

#5 2008-12-17 14:43:36

Re: Music player with good equatilization? [Was "Simple Equalization"]

#6 2008-12-24 15:02:25

Re: Music player with good equatilization? [Was "Simple Equalization"]

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