Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

sam tygier samtygier at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 12 09:03:27 UTC 2010


On 11/05/10 09:20, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:15:30AM CEST, Chandru wrote:
>> The default media players in Ubuntu, though quite capable do not have
>> graphical equalizers.  Rather than including an equalizer in every
>> application, having a system wide equalizer can be very handy especially
>> when playing online videos.
>
> I personally think that users will get confused with an EQ. If they find it, adjust something, and find sound is not as good, they will file bugs regarding sound problems that they have caused.
>
> I personally think we need to think very very carefully about how we implement EQ, and whether it is needed by the vast majority of people.
>
> Luke
>

The solution to bugs like this is to make apport upload the equalizer settings (i think it already does with the volume settings).

sam





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