[Maemo 3] No equalizer in Media Player?
 

Did I miss something, or is there really no audio equalizer in any media application? :confused:
I was just thinking of buying Koss ThePlug headphones for my N800, but I need at least an 5-band equalizer, because these headphones have very strange frequency ranges. I was thinking like "Sure, why would the tablet not have an equalizer" . Then I was clickin' around, just to confirm myself... but there is NO equalizer?!?! :eek:
Am I out-of-phase and just don't see it?

Re: No equalizer?!
 

I prefer a good headphone to an equaliser... the N800 is probably not one but proper hifi don't have DSP.

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Good headphones are nothing without an equalizer :mad: I don't get what you mean with dsp on hifi...

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He means that good stereo's (such as mine) do not need digital sound processing. I have a pair of Shure E5c's and I would not think of destroying their superior sound with an equalizer. I use them with my iPod or Xbox or anywhere, I want excellent sound.

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Hmm, I think it is very imortant to have an equalizer, because every headphone and every pair of speakers have different sound and characeristics. It is also a matter of personal favourites... There are people who like deep basses and there are the ones that dont etc. I dont understand why there is no eq in the tablets... Even cellular phones with simple mp3 have one :-/

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anything new about equalizer? couse of the missing EQ this will be the only reason why i would not use the n800 as mp3 player. :(

excuse my poor english, i`m austrian. :)

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There is an equalizer in xmms:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=11892

Click Eq and then switch it on.
It's 10 bands! And there is a preamp.

I have no clue if it really works but it should as it's software based..
If you get problems installing/using, report in xmms thread please.
There is a launcher that puts itself in the menus but when you minimize, you loose the app. This is only a first realease, others will follow.

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MUCHOS GRACIAS! :)
i will give it a try when my n800 arrives from amazon. yet 2 days waiting, i hope this time will pass quickly! :)

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You're welcome.
At the moment Ogg support is insanely slow, minimize doesn't work and it's in english only.
Working on it..

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If you need an equalizer, you shouldn't be using mp3s.

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hmm, comments like this i read very often, but i think an EQ is not only for tune up bad mp3s. if you are listening to electronic music like me, you can manipulate it like u want. i often don`t like to hear to music like it is produced. i manipulate also high quality losless compresion rips. a dj is doing the same, he is manipulating an record like he wants to give it another aspect.

Re: No equalizer?!
 

If it can help make the sound more tolerable, why not?

I get some headache inducing mids/highs from my N800, encoding doesn't make any difference with that, but the eq sure does.

Ideally I'd be playing nothing but flac (with eq), but storage isn't quite cheap enough for that yet.

I wish the N800 sounded as good to my ears as my HiMD unit, but I didn't expect it to, in fact I expected it to sound much worse than it does.

Re: No equalizer?!
 

Thanks to KotC for these links. Gstreamer has EQ plugins.

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/doc...n/plugins.html
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/dat...equalizer.html

I find Zerojay's comment to be wrong. (but I like zerojay)

Re: No equalizer?!
 

My son (the "sound engineer") and I have discussed the variation in speakers, headphones, ear buds and room acoustics at length.

Besides the above variations, the primary need for an equalizer is because not everyone has the same ability to hear in different frequency ranges due to genetics, prior exposure to loud sounds, age, etc.

Using an equalizer provides a means for achieving pleasurable listening despite these variations--though I sometimes think that the most important sound control is the volume. ;-v

Not knowing enough of the "innards" of the N8xx--is the DSP chip/circuit in the device smart enough for high-bit-rate compensations through hardware (i.e. equalization through simple parameter changes rather than software compensation)?

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Heh... I'd actually state it the other way around. The better the source, the less need for an eq. The -only- place I bother with an equalizer is when listening to mp3s on my computer at work.

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I use the EQ on XMMS, it works pretty well. For those who feel that EQ's are unnecessary for decent recordings, well that's you. Anyone who's used more than one setup knows full well that different speakers can produce different frequencies at a given power level and therefore material that sounds good on x, may sound way different on y. It's like TV sets. You go into a store and all the tv's are showing the same show but they all look different.

in itunes I use SRSWow because I like the widened sound stage it provides. On some of my systems it produces distortion. When I'm making music I prefer a flat EQ at output, but I will change the params for different instruments to get a desired sound.

overall, lets not be audio snobs. you like what you like and that's fine.

Re: No equalizer?! I found 2 more!
 

Re: No equalizer?! I found 2 more! Both are under KDE358.

Smplayer under Video, there is one. It controls Contrast, Brightness, Hue etc. I never realize there is an equalizer for video. Interesting.

Xterm>Noatun>Settings>Equalizer, a 14 bands equalizer! How do you like that?

Question. Why NOBODY talk about noatun? Apparantly, if one can install(?) divx codec, it will then play divx file. How do you like that?


bun

Re: [Maemo 3] No equalizer in Media Player?
 

I just installed the Equalizer plugin

http://maemobriefs.blogspot.com/2010...-renderer.html

But changing the sliders does not seem to change the sound. I'm on PR1.1

Anyone else installed this yet?

Mike C