To maintainer of package "audacious"

[Cory K.]

Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Tue, 6 May 2008, Cory K. wrote:
>> Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>>> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Martin Olsson wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I believe that it could be useful to change the default output plugin
>>>> for audacious from "ALSA" to "PulseAudio". Doing this could help new
>>>> users avoid bug 226631 in launchpad (see discussion in that bug):
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/226631
>>>>
>>>> Audacious has supported pulseaudio output since 1.2.0 and on the
>>>> PulseAudio webpage their developers recommend using the PulseAudio
>>>> output plugin instead of the ALSA one for boxes which have PulseAudio:
>>>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
>>>>
>>>
>>> A fix has been uploaded to Intrepid, and will soon be in hardy-proposed
>>> too.
>>>
>>> t
>>>
>>
>> So we ignore the upstream maintainer? http://nenoblog.net/?p=4
>>
>> If *all* this update does is switches the default sound server (note
>> upstream maintainer thinks this is a bad idea) I don't think we should
>> bother. If it includes fixes for things like the broken EQ then sure.
>
> Err.. the second update includes a patch by William, so it should be
> good.

Ok.

> don't know about any broken EQ, never used one since they are useless.

It's broken in a similar manor as the Gstreamer one is. (which was
disabled instead of fixed) Just enable the EQ. Set a curve then play
some music. Its as if the preamp is set to high.

And yeah. I'm sure people with crappy equipment find EQing useless.
Sounds bad no matter what you do.;)

-Cory \m/