Sound equalisation problem with Audacious

[Arnaud Dessein]

Binary package hint: audacious

Hi,

This is NOT a report about the audacious equaliser but about the sound audacious produces WITHOUT the equaliser.

I was doing acoustic listening tests using Audacious and FLAC files when I have detected a difference between the equalisation of the sound played by Audacious.

Compared to VLC or Movie Player (Ubuntu) on the same setup, same file, I can (and my colleagues also) clearly hear a lack of low and high frequencies.

I have tried to compensate this problem with the equaliser of Audacious using my headphones at home. I am not an expert but the following configuration makes the sound less different than the one I hear when I use VLC or Movie Player :

60 Hz : + 3 dB
170 Hz : + 1 dB
6 kHz : + 1 dB

But this does not exactly compensate the problem (it does at low frequencies I think, but not at high frequencies).

I would like someone to make a test to confirm my bug report.

I have checked that :

- I am using the same sound output module (OSS) in both cases
- The volume is the same
- There is no equalisation enabled neither on VLC nor on Audacious.

I have compared Audacious 1.5.0 and VLC 0.8.6e on Ubuntu Hardy.

Thank you

Arnaud

NB :

arnaud@arnaud-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy audacious
audacious:
  Installed: 1.5.0-2ubuntu2~hardy1
  Candidate: 1.5.0-2ubuntu2~hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.0-2ubuntu2~hardy1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.5.0-2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

[Isak Frants (isakfrants)]

Is this still an issue? I'm not aware of this with updated Audacious 2.1 in Karmic.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test audacious 2.3 in the current Ubuntu development version (10.04). Thanks again!