To maintainer of package "audacious"

[Cory K.]

Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Cory K. wrote:
>> Timo Aaltonen wrote:
>>> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Cory K. wrote:
>>>>> 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.;)
>>>
>>> I always thought it's the other way around.. EQ:s made to get a "bass
>>> boost" or whatever :)
>>>
>>>
>>> /me goes back to listen his collection of ~4500 flac's using a pair of
>>> crappy old Sennheiser HD600's :)
>>>
>>
>> Ok. Since I'm rather comfortable with the size of my "e-penis" I won't
>> turn this into a competition. ;)
>
> heh :)
>
>> In any case, I'm grabbing their latest code to see if it's been fixed
>> upstream. Seems a shame to go through a SRU to "fix" something that
>> isn't broken and not try to fix something that is if we can.
>
> Well, PulseAudio is used by default and users are baffled because
> audacious remains silent... I'd say that is a bug. 

This will only help new installs though. And if this is the reasoning
for the update, there's alot more patches to be done. :P

Personally I'm not much for treating users like their inept and or
hand-holding. This dumbing-down of everything teaches people nothing
IMO. It's 1 simple switch for a user to do if they look through the
preferences.

Oh well.

-Cory \m/