Add sound enhancements such as equaliser or normalisation

[Christian]

Hi there! o/

After using this app since two days, i really like it. Some other bugs i had have already been mentioned.

At the moment, i am having problems listening to music through my headphones:

The volume is not loud enough for older tracks. I am talking about albums from the 70s/60s/80s, which were not effected by the "loudness war". Nowadays, the albums are mixed pretty loud, screw dynamic! :D

However, it would be nice to have a menu option to activate/deactivate the volume limits. Maybe it can be included into the equalizer, which might be inplented some day in the app?

Thank you in advance!

Cheers,
Kurisu

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I agree, I would love to see us have a equaliser. Maybe we could also add a compressor which could then be used to 'normalise' the volume as well? We would probably need a "Sound enhancements" page somewhere within the app so this would require design and we would need support in media-hub for injecting elements into the pipeline or allow us to access equaliser/compressor settings.

[Ferdinand Holzner (ferdinandholzner)]

I'm sure, you dev guys already found this, but just in case:

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/install-pulseaudio-with-built-in-system.html

According to this article, pulseaudio already has an inbuilt Equalizer. Theoretically you would only need to create a frontend to access it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Adding an equalizer in-app probably doesn't necessitate that it be done at the pulseaudio level. So this is "invalid" for PulseAudio.

But also, it's done :) -> see bug 932834