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Aug 4, 2024, 5:56:23 PM8/4/24

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Inthe title bar, there are a few buttons. Tooltips explain most, but the ability to keep configuration between sessions is hidden in the menu triggered from left-most CSD button, labelled as Keep Settings.

Sincere apologies in the delayed reply, when I said GTK3 I meant that in context of GTK3 CSD buttons. Additional GTK3 libraries may need to be installed on exclusively Qt-based desktops like KDE if those libraries were not already dependencies from other software.

The pulseaudio equalizer ladsp package worked for me in Kde Plasma. I installed it as described at the top of this post. Thanks for this tutorial! I am really happy with it, because especially youtube videos can be of horrendous sound quality, but with this system wide pulseaudio equalizer installed, even the worst sounding youtube can be tweaked easily.

If you do encounter an issue, since this software is from the Manjaro community repository you can file any problems you encounter here and hope for a response. Also, this software needs a new maintainer to carry the torch, so if anybody wants to try maintaining the software then lend your body to the cause of great audio for all so us brainlets can not think so hard about how to make Linux sound good.

Edit: Wow, also, funniest thing, I apparently posted a comment on this tutorial about a year ago I have since tried qpaeq, I did not have the same issues with it as I did with pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa & pulseaudio-equalizer-gtk.

See funny enough on my Dell N1770 with a second-generation, barrel-bottom Intel Core i3 second-generation processor qpaeq on Ubuntu was absolute garbage. People on the Ubuntu MATE forums agreed with me about that, but I have stopped maintaining that thread there since I am pretty much done with Debian systems.

This is supposed to be a simplified GUI for general users to access professional audio plugins

professional users would use the audio plugins directly with very different GUI and controls

(see calf-studio-gear.org and Linux Studio Plugins Project)

Pulseaudio Equalizer (qpaeq) has been recommended to avoid for many years, back to archived forum, because it generally does not work well

pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa has been discussed much more on here for many years and is favoured by many users

-audio-equalizer-stops-working/64653

-equalizer-ladspa-gui/136855

Hi all, I had this problem too, luckily I was able to fix it by setting the equalizer correctly in EE and PE. It was then that I decided to share my work on GitHub and well this is the repository: GitHub - p-chan5/EasyPulse: A set of HQ presets for Easy Effects. I decided to also include a stereo effect that sounds nice on headphones.

Knowing which is the most appropriate for you is difficult. However, I support both versions (the one using PulseAudio and the other using PipeWire). They both sound the same (far from the technical aspects).

It's being 2 months i have being using zorin i liked it very much. I like to listen high bass music while working the only thing i'm missing especially on wired headset the music quality very poor as compared to my previous windows exp. I'm Asus Tuf Fx504 its support DTS audio while i was on Windows 10.

Then as you can already see in my screenshot. Click on Equalizer, adjust the frequency sliders as need. You can turn on/off the equalizer, by putting a checkmark or removing checkmark, next to equalizer in the left side list.

Hello,

I take this opportunity to say that there is a lua script equalizer available for gnome-mpv.

It is necessary to create a file with a text editor in .config/gnome-mpv/scripts/equalizer.lua where we put the script from this page.

Thanks @sangheeta For this new information. In software center i only found PulseEffects. That's why i am using it. It detect almost any sound related software. Such as spotify, vlc & firefox. My question is after save the "equalizer.lua" is it show on start menu?

sangheeta what about system-wide? like spotify, vlc, chrome every application can use it. Also activate this bass mode only when headset is connected. Is calf plugin pack for jack is necessary in this case??

Samsung kills dynamic range from the factory. You want REAL sound quality ? Take every frequency band and move it down -2db across the board. This will bring back your dynamic range, this was already thoroughly tested and proven on the s9 and s10. Probably still applies.

Oh woww. Thank you so much for sharing. I am using samsung galaxy a52 and was searching for the best equlizer setting for my phone since it doesn't sound good to me. Now my sound feels more alive thanks to this!!

I know you have equalizers for Mac and Windows that can control everything what runs and makes sound on the platforms. But is there an app for iOS that can do the same. It's just meant to control my headphones (Audio Technica M50x) in my opinion they have too much bass, so I want to control the low. Also different solutions (hardware?) are welcome.

I've been looking also recently into this and discovered that that there are only equalizers for music available if you use a regular iOS device. However at the beginning of this year a free iOS tweak was launched called EQE that does exactly what you want BUT you need a jailbroken device

So after the app economy undermining give away expensive stuff for free to the rich guys action buy INTUA probably another reason to jailbreak your device. With this kind of developments I predict jailbreaking will become more and more popular.

If you don't mind to stop updating your iOS, that is. The vast majority of iOS users don't care about jailbreaking, they will accept everything that is A) new and from Apple.

For music lovers, the JB route indeed seems the better way to go, not only that you can make your iDevice much more useful and enjoyable, but also you're able to transfer files between apps freely, erase gigabytes of sound content individually without destroying the app, and access your own song and sample data even in apps that don't support consistent file sharing. You could even auto-sync the files with your desktop/laptop without the nasty restrictions of iTunes, and back up any app version you want.

@greengrocer said:

Yes unfortunately. There's quite a view specialized apps like equalizer pro that can do the same. Besides software solutions you could of course also look for a portable headphone amp/ equalizer but most off the come with a high pricetag.

Thank you all for the suggestions. @mannix this jailbreak app you suggest is exactly what I was looking for. Unfortunately I don't like to jailbreak my devices so not really an option. Would be great I Apple would give devs more freedom and would devs develop such an app so it could be distributed through the appstore.

External devices seem to be not really easy available, probably there's not a market for it. So this brings everything back to the type of headphones you use. Saw differnt threads about this subject. Will dig deeper in it.

@mannix said:

What I understood it can make iOS unstable and what you say also security is high on my agenda. I do a lot with y iDevices. Interesting though is that there are apps that really make the device more interactive. Especially the app @mannix came up with.

Can wholeheartly agree with you about stealing apps. But I can understand that a group of people can become frustrated paying for expensive apps that become free and at a certain level decide not paying anymore for those apps.