#Quod libet control volume hotkey install#

If you build it from source, aside from the usual 'which dev libraries do I need' dance to enable features and plugins, you also need to install clang and libdispatch-dev. There's a 'playlist browser' widget, but it's only for playlists.ĮDIT2: One very cool feature: it can automatically set ReplayGain by track or album mode depending on how the playlist is sorted. But it lacks the one thing that I have yet to find in any other audio player than Foobar2000: the music library tree view with its searching, sorting, and filtering capabilities - especially the ability to search, sort, or filter on any tag, including user-defined ones. This one is tantalizingly close, with the design mode and all. I've been looking for years to find a proper Foobar2000 replacement for Linux.

So close! I just built it from source and had a look at it. The result smooths out the resonant frequencies present in pretty much all speaker and headphone systems, giving a flat response - also accounting for similar effects within the individual listener's ears. The aim is to have a sine sweep of equal apparent volume. Usually only a couplw of peaks are required to cancel out the main resonant frequencies. where the speakers/headphones' resonant frequencies), then place and fine-tune your 'negative' peaks to cancel those out. It's a bit tricky to set up - first you need to set an A-weighted equal-volume EQ curve, and listen to pure sine tones (and a frequency sweep) to pick out where it's particularly loud (i.e. Parametric EQ allows me to place 'negative peaks' the response curve with just the right frequency, bandwidth and attenuation to cancel out the 'positive peaks' caused by resonant frequencies of my headphones.

#Quod libet control volume hotkey software#

Software parametric EQ has been my biggest audio breakthrough, which I evangelise at every opportunity.įor Windows at least, there is a free tool called Equalizer APO, which allows me to pipe all audio through a parametric equalizer.