Note: This project is still in progress. Please travel to the Google Code Project for more.

Just when you thought it was safe…

1.4 of the RBEQ, the Rhythmbox Equalizer, is out and ready for download. The big change here is a switch from storing presets in a flat file to using the GStreamer Preset system. As always, downloads are at RBEQ Google Code.

A big thanks to Stefan Kost, who left this gem of a comment on the 1.3 release posting:

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/

Since I didn’t know anything about them, after looking at the aforementioned docs, I’ve gotten things so that they use the GStreamer Preset interface, and it is more well-behaved.

Also a big thanks to Hicham HAOUARI, whose awesome work has gotten RBEQ into Fedora! That’s awesome; I was nearly flabbergasted when I saw that. Thank you for the support!

Comments and bug issues are always welcome; please let me know what you find while using it.

Note: This project is still in progress. Please travel to the Google Code Project for more.

UPDATE: The Rhythmbox EQ has been updated.  You can find it at  google code.

I’ve finally gotten to the point where my basic rhythmbox equalizer is up and running, so I figured I’d let the package sit here as an available download.  I’ll also link it to the rhythmbox devels, in hopes that it generates a bit more interest, and someone might come along and clean up and add to it more, in the true open source sense.

You can download the package here: Click Me!.

Installation instructions:

Uncompress this package using an archive utility (file-roller) to the ~/.gnome2 directory, or use the following command:

tar -xvzf rbeq-1.3.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2

And that’s it!  Open rhythmbox, and go to “Edit -> Plugins” and select “Rhythmbox Equalizer.”

Screenshot (by request):

Screencap for the Rhythmbox EQ.

It feels good to finally have a project of my own out there to help the community.   Ciao!