I would also like to point out that some of us have recordings that are, in fact, not mixed, or recorded in a setting where there is control over that sort of thing. I listen to some artists who are recorded live (not professionally), so an EQ in rhythmbox would make some sense there, I think.
I definitely vote for a plugin. -Matt Brendan Martens wrote: >> Please read my whole email before starting to answer it. It is clear >> to >> me that you have completely misunderstood my sentiments. >> > I read your entire email, several times. Maybe I did not understand > something about what you were saying, but I think I got the general > idea, especially given the reply you just made. > > >> An EQ definitely belongs in the pipeline---at the *end*. Thankfully, >> good sound drivers offer this functionality (My EMU10k1 driver does, >> at >> least). >> >> The responses of your audio equipment, room, ears and brain are not >> selective, they respond in a consistent fashion. Thus having an EQ >> just >> for music is utterly pointless, unless you are specifically being >> creative. >> > > You are completely wrong here. Every single track recorded is going to > be a little bit different than the last. More notably every album > recorded is different. I'll stick to your assumption here that "creative > eq" is a bad thing, given that, and that albums are all equalized > differently in the studio, with different hardware and with a different > set of people's ears, a different eq setting would be necessary for > every album to achieve a "consistent" sound. So please don't say that > having eq for music is pointless, that is just ludicrous. > > > >> If your music is truly lacking in specific regions, then so >> are all of your other system sounds, voice communications, etc. >> Thankfully, an EQ at the end of the audio pipeline (e.g. in the ALSA >> driver or in PulseAudio) alleviates this effectively. >> > > I agree with this, it would be nice to have an eq at the end to fix > overall issues that are associated with the audio setup, and not the > audio source files themselves. If I had to choose just one of the two > though (I'm not saying we do) I would go with an eq in the music player > because I honestly don't care too much what my pidgin alerts sound like. > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
