pulseaudio-equalizer

[vinnywright]

I just looked for this the other day and it has been updated for 16.04

and since my Neon-/dev/stable is based on 16.04 I tried it ,,,,,,,,,,,

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/syste...equalizer.html

and it works well @hear ,,,you do not get immediate change when you adjust the sliders ,,,you must click apply to set the change ,,,,,but to have a system wide EQ I can live with it .

yes VLC has it's own EQ and so dose my favorite QMplay2 but Spotify dose not and what about web browser audio and video ,,,well this covers whatever is coming through your sound system.



yes it's GTK ,,,,and I'm using the "Arc-red-dark" theme ,,,,,but it works

VINNY

[vinnywright]

So ,,,even though this one dose work ,,,,I got the urge to tinker tonight and inspired by this thread ( https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...l=1#post411289 ) I wanted to know if the "qpaeq" would work .

it seams as though it is not included with the pulseaudio-utils package any more so I went looking for it ,,,,,,witch led hear ( https://github.com/pulseaudio/pulsea...rc/utils/qpaeq ) it's ported to PyQt5 ,,,,,, coped the script and saved as /usr/bin/qpaeq ,,,,,,,"chmod +x /usr/bin/qpaeq" ,,,,load the pulse modules

pactl load-module module-equalizer-sink

and

pactl load-module module-dbus-protocol

now an entry will be in the speaker icon in the system tray "FFT based equalizer on built in analog stereo" when you want to use the equalizer just drag the app that your using from the applacations tab and drop it on the eq output ,,,,and launch the "qpaeq" .



this one dose adjust the sound in real time as you adjust the sliders and remembers where you had them set after closing reopening the app .

to make pulse audio auto load the 2 necessary models at system start just add

### Load the integrated PulseAudio equalizer and D-Bus module
load-module module-equalizer-sink
load-module module-dbus-protocol

to the end of /etc/pulse/default.pa

and it's Qt so fits right in

VINNY

[wadesmart]

Uh.. so.. this is awkward.

I moved from Ubuntu to Kubuntu 18.04.
I have the same problem with online podcasts and found this thread.
Installed the eq, put the code at the end of the default.pa file...
soo.. HOW do you access the eq?

[vinnywright]

Uh.. so.. this is awkward.

I moved from Ubuntu to Kubuntu 18.04.
I have the same problem with online podcasts and found this thread.
Installed the eq, put the code at the end of the default.pa file...
soo.. HOW do you access the eq?

you can launch by typing qpaeq in a konsole and pressing enter , if you saved the script to /usr/bin/qpaeq ,and /usr/bin is in your path (it should be) ... and to make it more convenient you can make a menu entry for it so you can just click it in the menu .

VINNY

[wadesmart]

First, thanks for the answer.
Second, sorry I didnt respond back. I thought the forum would send a email
upon any response.

Now that I can start it, this is supposed to work for all audio coming across the
system, right?

Under Sink I have two options:
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.equalizer
alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.equalizer.equalizer

Neither choice seems to allow any change to the audio.

Going back to what I did before (because its been a while)
pactl load-module module-dbus-protocol
Failure: Module initialization failed.

Log shows:
9/20/18 12:39 PM pulseaudio [pulseaudio] module-equalizer-sink.c: module-equalizer-sink is currently unsupported, and can sometimes cause PulseAudio crashes, increased latency or audible artifacts.
9/20/18 12:39 PM pulseaudio [pulseaudio] module-equalizer-sink.c: If you're facing audio problems, try unloading this module as a potential workaround.
9/20/18 12:39 PM pulseaudio [pulseaudio] module-equalizer-sink.c: resume state exists but is wrong size!
9/20/18 12:39 PM pulseaudio [alsa-sink-ALC888 Analog] module-equalizer-sink.c: Resetting filter
9/20/18 12:39 PM pulseaudio [alsa-sink-ALC888 Analog] module-equalizer-sink.c: Resetting filter
9/20/18 12:39 PM pulseaudio [alsa-sink-ALC888 Analog] module-equalizer-sink.c: Resetting filter
9/20/18 12:39 PM pulseaudio [pulseaudio] module.c: Module "module-dbus-protocol" should be loaded once at most. Refusing to load.

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[wadesmart]

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[wadesmart]

Im logged in.
Otherwise I couldnt reply here.

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[wadesmart]

Sure, go ahead.
Did you see the link above?
Screen shot of my screen.
But yes, go ahead and log in.

[Snowhog]

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[wadesmart]

Back to the original subject - I got the eq to work after finding the
sound settings and changing the settings for Firefox.

Now, how do you make a menu entry like vinny was saying above -> "and to make it more convenient you can make a menu entry for it so you can just click it in the menu ."
And, is it possible to add it to the sound menu when it pops out?

[wadesmart]

Oh! Ok so.. .. until you are established you cant know you have replies to your
help requests. Interesting. Well, would it not be good to add to the "registered user"
to receive emails by default?

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