Please add a graphic equalizer in rhythmbox

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄]

please.. I'll be so happy if you implement an equalizer to rhythmbox.

Thank you!

[Vimal George (vimalg2)]

I suggest emailing or dropping a suggestion with the developers of Rhythmbox directly. They code and build the packages that ubuntu just re-builds and aggregates into a distro. Good luck.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. That's know upstream, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76522

[Jason Erbskorn (mrguy)]

I will definitely second the request... once thats been developed Rhythmbox will appeal to a larger user base.

[mike o'connor (moconnor-enquire)]

+1 from me too!

I was using Rhythmbox quite happily with my PC speakers until I had to switch to using earphones. The earphones push out much less low-frequency than the speakers - the resulting sound quality just isn't good enough.

I really tried to find a solution - the Rhythmbox developers on the mailing lists seem to reject a Rhythmbox-specific equalizer in favour of a system-wide equalizer. Unfortunately I couldn't find either.

In the meantime I'm having to use XMMS - its inbuilt equalizer/amplifier does the job perfectly.

[A. Walton (awalton)]

This should be coming down the pipeline soon, see the links below for more information:

(Move equalizer to GStreamer-Plugins-Good)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415627

(Equalizer widget for Rhythmbox)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76522

[Chandru (chandru-in-deactivatedaccount)]

+1 from me too

This is one thing I miss badly in almost all gnome music players (except Exaile).

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

A bit tangential, but Banshee just got this in SVN: http://abock.org/2008/01/25/software-eq-in-banshee.

[Chandru (chandru-in-deactivatedaccount)]

@Andrew

Banshee is much late at this. Exaile had it right at the time of Gutsy release. From my experience, Exaile is much faster than Banshee too.

[ragnaroknroll (ragnaroknroll)]

I totally agree... Every repectable music player just has to have an equalizer...
I really don't see where the developers of Rhythmbox are headed, with it being the default music player and manager of Ubuntu, but without an equalizer... It is small glitches like this that make Ubuntu unattractive to new people...

[Uroš Gaber (uros-gaber)]

Please implement equalizer.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

there's a patch upstream that you're welcome to test and give feedback to the upstream bug report if you want this to be implemented shortly, thanks.

[Uroš Gaber (uros-gaber)]

Where can i get this upstream?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

the code can be grabbed from svn.gnome.org and the patch from the bug linked on this report. thanks.

[Uroš Gaber (uros-gaber)]

Sorry but i don't know how to use it. I registered on this site http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76522, i got the attachment, but is just some c++ code i think.

[Uroš Gaber (uros-gaber)]

I found this equalizer on this site http://cs.helsinki.fi/u/ttokalli/rb-plugins/ (Teemu Kallio did the job), it works but i think that this should be embedded in RB, just like Jamendo (on the left plane for example). I would tried my self to program it, but i know little about python programing.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Please do not add plugins as attachments, a bug tracker is not for that, if you want to discuss things please raise them to a mailing list, etc. Thanks.

[industar (industar)]

+1
I was rather surprised not to see such an essential part of a music player as the equalizer! It kind of spoils a bit my otherwise very high opinion of RhythmBox.

[m3ta-x (ubuntu-addict)]

+ 1
Until Rythmbox has no equalizer, I use Banshee who has a good one.

Please, give us an equalizer :)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

You better comment on the upstream bug tracker, the upstream developers implement the new features, Ubuntu is just packaging the software they provide ATM and fixing bugs. Please comment on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76522 ; Thanks.

[Paul Swanson (paul-swanson)]

Oh come on! Include a graphic equalizer in Rhythmbox ... Gstreamer already has the plugin available .... just give it a GUI!!

It's only on issues like this that I regret using GNOME. If GTK+/C weren't so convoluted I might consider having a go at developing one myself. But life is just too short for GTK+/C. It's kind of ironic, the minimalist desktop environment is powered by a pig's breakfast of a development stack, and the most offensively cluttered desktop environment is powered by a very rational one. Why?!! Could someone please rebuild GNOME in QT/C++ :P

[KruyKaze (kruykaze)]

http://cs.helsinki.fi/u/ttokalli/rb-plugins/ works for me thanks a lot Uroš Gaber.

[Pierce Gerhart (piercegerhart)]

Sorry, I was screwing around and inadvertently changed the status. I'm not sure why "triaged" is greyed out for me...maybe someone can switch it back.

[NCMyrick (nmyrick)]

A 10-band equalizer for RhythmBox is available at the following website.

http://live.gnome.org/RhythmboxPlugins/ThirdParty

Neil