June 30th 2009 I wrote about an equalizer-plugin for Rhythmbox which then was just about the only decent thing available. It now seems that that plugin isn’t being worked on anymore. Luckily we have people like Christopher Kruse from http://www.cornerofseven.com. :) He has now released version 1.3 of his Rhythmbox equalizer-plugin, which you can find at http://rbeq.googlecode.com/.
The installation:
$ wget http://rbeq.googlecode.com/files/rbeq-1.3.tar.gz $ tar -zxvf rbeq-1.3.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2/
Head on over to http://cornerofseven.com/blog/2010/02/rbeq-1-3-now-with-presets/ for the main post. Thanks Christopher!
And of course, a screenshot of the plugin:
hi jorge. doesnt work with me. when i go to edit>plugins and try to activate rhythmbox equalizer it just says: unable to activate plugin. heres the output of when i installed it if it helps
[Tim@Pizza-Laptop ~]$ wget http://rbeq.googlecode.com/files/rbeq-1.3.tar.gz
–2010-03-11 21:58:03– http://rbeq.googlecode.com/files/rbeq-1.3.tar.gz
Resolving rbeq.googlecode.com… 74.125.77.82
Connecting to rbeq.googlecode.com|74.125.77.82|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 13742 (13K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `rbeq-1.3.tar.gz’
100%[======================================>] 13,742 43.6K/s in 0.3s
2010-03-11 21:58:04 (43.6 KB/s) – `rbeq-1.3.tar.gz’ saved [13742/13742]
[Tim@Pizza-Laptop ~]$ mkdir -p ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/
[Tim@Pizza-Laptop ~]$ tar -zxvf rbeq-1.3.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/presets
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/__init__.pyc
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/equalizer.pyc
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/rbeq_ui.xml
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/__init__.py
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/rbeq.rb-plugin
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/equalizer.py
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/COPYING
rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq/ChangeLog
Comment by Tim — March 11, 2010 @ 23:02
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. ;)
Comment by Leitão — March 24, 2010 @ 03:59
Hello
The directory was twice created
so i created manually ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq
and move up the files in it
@ubuntu-desktop:~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/rbeq$ ls -alrt
total 80
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 15204 2010-02-17 23:53 rbeq_ui.xml
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 253 2010-02-17 23:53 rbeq.rb-plugin
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 2783 2010-02-17 23:53 __init__.py
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 6855 2010-02-17 23:53 equalizer.py
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 15084 2010-02-17 23:53 COPYING
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 2913 2010-02-17 23:57 __init__.pyc
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 8896 2010-02-17 23:57 equalizer.pyc
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 97 2010-02-17 23:58 presets
-rw-r–r– 1 guy root 409 2010-02-18 00:04 ChangeLog
drwxr-xr-x 2 guy root 4096 2010-04-05 11:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 guy root 4096 2010-04-05 11:01 ..
and now Rhythmbox 0.12.8 is happy
I get the menu tools -> set equalizer
Comment by grandtoubab — April 5, 2010 @ 11:09
Thanks grandtoubab for the tip about the directory being created twice. Works great now.
Comment by eddy — April 14, 2010 @ 20:26
@jorge, the third command should be: tar -zxvf rbeq-1.3.tar.gz -C ~/.gnome2/
@grandtoubab, thanks for the directory tip.
rhythmbox just came alive!
Comment by Hackerswami — June 8, 2010 @ 18:59
@Hackerswami: The error has been corrected, thanks. :)
Comment by jorge — June 9, 2010 @ 05:39