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Sumeet Deshmukh
Asked: 2017-04-29 03:39:44 +0800 CST

Pulse audio equaliser that has presets?

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I've used it before in 16.10 but I'm unable to find it for 17.04

I used these commands

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pavucontrol && pavucontrol

Also tried to use PPA for pulseaudio-equalizer

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

and all I got was this (for GUI)

Screenshot

But I want something with more control where I can increase bass and treble or audio frequencies in short

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This is what I'm looking for, but I can't seem to find it

sound

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  1. Best Answer

    After downloading and installing UbuntuGnome 17.04 I added the same PPA you used and installed pulseaudio-equalizer and pulseaudio pavucontrol and ran into the same problem, no icon was added to the dashboard and I couldn't start pulseaudio-equalizer in any way.

    Checking all the files I found with a file-search for pulseaudio and intensive internet research led me to this page in the Arch wiki where I found a solution:

    Edit the /etc/pulse/default.pa or ~/.config/pulse/default.pa file with your favorite editor and append the following lines:

    ### Load the integrated PulseAudio equalizer and D-Bus module
load-module module-equalizer-sink
load-module module-dbus-protocol

    After doing that I rebooted and ran qpaeq in terminal. This opened the graphical interface, but playing around with the sliders had no effect.

    If qpaeq has no effect, install pavucontrol and change "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" to "FFT based equalizer on ..." while the media player is running. (in the Playback-tab)

    That did the job. This setting seems to persist (at least as long qpaeq was running, even if I closed and reopened the media-player).

    The interface looks a bit different from the image you posted and there are no built-in presets, but there is an option to save presets.

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