Audio will always suck in Linux

[mzsade]

And i will hang my head in shame when i have over an XP user to listen to music, unless somebody decides to work on it. And why pulse, for bog's sake? It doesn't even have an equalizer! http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1029576

[kvv]

Ironically, Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/) has the best equalizer I have ever used. Beats ever Windows counterpart I have seen. It's developers are some what arrogant, but they are efficient and know what they are doing.

Have fun.

[mzsade]

I was thinking more along the lines of one for VLC; which of course is the second best alternative to a system wide GE.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=820766
Except i haven't a clue how to get it, always get stuck when they write "open VLC, go to Settings" Eh!?? What, Where...?

[kvv]

There in fact exists a system wide 18 - 20 band equalizer, but I never used it or felt the need to use it, partly because it kinda sucked.

Google along the lines of "ubuntu gnome system wide equalizer pulse audio", you get the flow. I think it's a ppa, but I don't really remember.

And thanks for the link, it was pretty interesting,

[Roken]

I installed the equalizer (which I found by following the thread linked to by the OP) and can honestly say that it works, and works well here.

To be honest, I didn't have any problems with the default setup in Mint (Whereas in Windows 7 I had to tweak the equalizer for a good 30 minutes to obtain a decent sound quality when I bought some new speakers, the sound in Mint was fine without tweaking). I was, however, bemoaning the lack of a system wide equalizer at the time, and am rather happy now to have one that works.

[kvv]

Yes, I had used the same thing. However, I thought it was very sensitive to small changes and found it quite hard to tweak. And I am one of those guys who go crazy if I don't have the right settings. (I know I am kinda spoilt , wonder if Audacious will port to Windows)

[Nick_Djinn]

Read my thread about Pulse being the worst tragedy ever to befall Linux.


That said, PureDyne and some other music-media centered distros, PureDyne being an amalgam of Ubuntu and Dynabolic, actually have great sound recording and editing capability. Ive veen using Linux to record and some studios use Studio64.

[mzsade]

Actually I am having second thoughts about the necessity for a system wide equalizer after discovering what VLC's “Tools>>Effects and Filters” can do. Apart from having an equalizer with convenient presets, it has a lot of video options too. What I need to know is, is increasing the brightness and Gamma, etc. with it, in effect, the same as changing the Nvidia Xserver color settings, in the sense that, does it put the same extra load on the system resources?

[Nick_Djinn]

Im sure it does, but I doubt its going to make or break system performance on newer hardware. Its not like we are talking about editing 3d rendering from one format to another, which is probably one of the most resource intensive tasks you can do.