17Feb/108
RBEQ 1.3 – Now With Presets!
Hello all -
A new version of RBEQ, the Rhythmbox Equalizer plugin that I've been hacking away at, is out for public availability. Of course, this means that I have to go update all of my previous links to point to the new download. For ease of accessibility, you can find it at http://rbeq.googlecode.com, as the featured download. Installation instructions are the same: download the file, open a terminal, and type:
tar -xvzf rbeq-1.3.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2New in this release:
- The ability to save and load presets. This has been a big request, and I finally found a decent way of handling it.
- Layout cleanup and arranging to add in the new preset functions.
- Backend code cleanup, so that it behaves more python-y. I'm not a python programmer, so this has been a neat experiment in trying it out.
Thanks to all out there who have used and enjoy the past versions of this plugin. Hope that the new one is to your liking. 
February 22nd, 2010 - 16:52
It is to my liking! Thank you! However I think you could use less space. Banshee has a great equalizer with an excellent ui. You should have a look at this: http://abock.org/blog-images/banshee-eq.png (banshee’s compatible winamp presets available there: http://www.mikesplanet.net/files/equalizers.xml.gz)
You could as well move the equalizer entry into the “view” menubar with a checkbox mode (don’t know how to say that but a show/hide “Equalizer” would be better). Currently it is possible to open more than one equalizer which is useless.
Somebody else is working on an equalizer: http://www.lirmm.fr/~morandat/index.php/Main/Tools
He has updated it recently and added an icon to the toolbar, which I think it’s pretty handy.
Changing the window title from Rhythmbox to Equalizer would be a plus. And last but least, 100 KHz means nothing. It is 100 kHz.
Anyway thanks!! It was really needed!
March 23rd, 2010 - 20:57
Hey, really great work. My 2 cents:
When I put a list of presets saving, they get pretty disorganized (don’t understand why)… Even if I manually edit the ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/presets , it seems to shuffle again :-/
Also, as the list grows, it tends to add invalid spaces in the top.
And it never “remembers” the last selection, resetting to FLAT (only on the list, of course the audio remains adjusted)
I which I could help more…
Here is the list I am using in my presets file, feel free to redistribute or edit as you please:
Flat
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
Clear
1.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,-3.0,0.0,0.0,2.0,2.0,1.0
Classic
5.0,2.1,-0.3,-2.5,-6.0,-4.8,1.5,5.0,5.0,4.0
Soft Bass
3.0,5.0,4.0,0.0,-8.0,-7.0,-5.0,-4.7,-1.0,-2.5
Home Theater
5.0,2.0,0.0,-2.0,-5.0,-6.0,-5.1,-2.4,1.0,4.0
1965
-12.0,-8.4,-5.3,-1.8,-1.8,-5.3,-5.3,3.0,3.0,-3.9
Pop
6.0,5.0,3.0,0.0,-3.0,-6.0,-3.3,1.2,4.1,6.0
Air
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.0,2.0
Full Treble
-6.0,-6.0,-6.0,-4.0,-2.0,2.0,4.0,6.0,6.0,6.0
Strings
-3.0,-4.0,-5.0,-3.1,-1.3,1.0,2.1,1.0,-2.0,-2.0
Presence
0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,3.0,5.0,4.0,3.0,2.0,0.0
Loudness
4.0,4.0,2.0,-2.0,-2.0,-4.0,-10.0,-7.0,3.0,4.0
Punch
3.0,5.0,3.0,-1.0,-4.5,-2.0,1.5,0.0,5.0,3.0
Drums
4.0,3.0,0.0,-2.0,-3.0,-2.0,0.0,2.0,1.0,4.0
Shimmer
0.0,0.0,-2.0,-7.0,-4.5,0.0,4.0,1.5,4.0,0.0
Car Stereo
-5.0,1.0,0.0,-3.5,-5.0,-5.0,-1.5,1.0,-2.0,-5.0
Full Bass
6.0,6.0,6.0,4.0,1.0,-1.0,-4.0,-6.0,-6.0,-6.0
Thanx a lot for the brilliance plugin – songbird is gone for good now.
March 31st, 2010 - 08:24
Can you please create a .deb package for ubuntu for this?
March 31st, 2010 - 13:19
Any reason, you are not using the presets shipped with the gstreamer plugin?
Look at /usr/share/gstreamer-0.10/presets/GstIirEqualizer10Bands.prs and the GstPreset interface.
Users can install own presets to $HOME/.gstreamer-0.10/presets/
April 2nd, 2010 - 06:28
I installed the plugin correctly but the “configure…” option is grayed out for me. Anyone knows why?
April 2nd, 2010 - 06:58
never mind, figured it out. Thanks for your work ! Works perfectly.
April 4th, 2010 - 05:26
do tell what u figured out
April 26th, 2010 - 18:02
@Stefan: The reason I didn’t use the GStreamer presets was because I did not know of them.
Looks like a good reason for a version 0.4!