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18
2004
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Illogic-al on amaroKGone are the days when KDE users would lament for an XMMS replacement. |
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amaroK volume normalization
I've been using XMMS (and Winamp) for years, mostly because I like the small interface. I've been testing out the latest SUSE release, though, which uses amaroK as the default audio player. I've been having some issues with XMMS lately, so I figured this would be a great time to try using something else.
So far I've been pretty happy with amaroK. However, there's one feature that makes it almost unusable for me - no volume normalization. Both XMMS and Winamp offer plugins for this, however I haven't been able to find any way to do this with amaroK.
Does anyone know of a way to do this? I usually listen to a very random playlist, so as you can imagine, the volume changes when switching from a soft instrumental track to hard rock can be pretty extreme. Thanks!
Re: amaroK volume normalization
I think probably gstreamer and arts support things like this, but in any case its not build-in in amarok. I tried equalizing with arts, but it didnt work for me - so I'm very happy with the mentioned 10-band equalizer in amarok for the gstreamer-engine.
Re: amaroK volume normalization
You might want to check this out:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/ReplayGain?content=26073
Alsasink is better now
Ronald and Benjamin of the GStreamer team have done some fixes to the alsasink so it should hopefully be a little better than described here now :) Fixed my problem when used with Amaraok at least.
Lets just hope we can get freedesktop CVS up and running again so we can do a new gstreamer plugins release with the fixes in :)
amaroK
Personally think amaroK's excellent for what it is - simple, easy to use - drag & drop your mp3's into the window - good, easy to use application - thanks to devs ;)
Default keyboard shortcuts for audio
I recently got the Bluetooth HID feature of my K700i to work. This means I can control the computer with my phone. But there are no default, global keybindings for controlling audio in KDE as far as I can tell. I think all audio players (video players as well, probably) should share global keybindings.
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