[pulseaudio-discuss] location of pa-equalizer default config and presets

[Bernhard Landauer]

>     On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Bernhard Landauer
>     <oberon at manjaro.org <mailto:oberon at manjaro.org>> wrote:
>
>         On 26.07.2017 20 <tel:26.07.2017%2020>:58, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>
>             My answer was based on reading the source code, and it
>             seemed like
>             module-equalizer-sink stores some database in
>             ~/.config/pulse/equalizer-presets, and based on the file
>             name, that
>             seemed like the place where the presets live.
>
>             I now looked at the contents of the files in
>             https://github.com/rsommerard/pulse-presets
>             <https://github.com/rsommerard/pulse-presets> and it's
>             clear that those
>             preset files aren't used with qpaeq/module-equalizer-sink.
>             The database
>             that module-equalizer-sink uses is not in text format, but the
>             rsommerard presets are text files. The files contain the
>             string
>             "mbeq_1197", which is an identifier for a ladspa eq
>             plugin. Apparently
>             the presets are meant to be used with some program that
>             sets up module-
>             ladspa-sink in pulseaudio. I don't know what program that is.
>
>         Right. My actual question is still not answered.
>         I need to preconfigure qpaeq and the files in ~/.config/pulse
>         are in fact not doing the job. Deleting them does not remove
>         an existing config and providing them does not supply them ...
>         So how does it really work?
>
>         _______________________________________________
>         pulseaudio-discuss mailing list
>         pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org
>         <mailto:pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org>
>         https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
>         <https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss>
>
>
>
> Whoops - sorry for the previous top post.
>
> Also, qpaeq can show you a bit of how to speak with the equalizer in a 
> separate script.
>
> -Jason
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list
> pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
Thank you for the info, Jason!
I've now decided to go with pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa. That works 
really well and the plain text config comes in very handy, indeed.

regards
Bernhard
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20170803/c132dcd2/attachment.html>