Bug 344526

Summary: phonon-gst equalizer doesn't provide descriptive labels in Phonon::EffectParameter::name() anymore
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] phonon-backend-gstreamer Reporter: Germano Massullo <germano.massullo>
Component: generalAssignee: Daniel Vrátil <dvratil>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: normal CC: corrado.mella, dev.dliw, germano.massullo, jss, kde, matej, myriam, romain.perier, sam, simonandric5, sitter, tdfischer, thatwaschrislee, victor.conti79, vorpal, zmogas
Priority: NOR    
Version: 4.9.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Germano Massullo 2015-02-24 12:46:44 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #280318 +++

Version:           2.4.0 (using KDE 4.4.6) 
OS:                Linux

The equalizer frequencies and gain labels are missing (labels are replaced with N/A).
Translation problem?
My system locale is English GB.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open [Tools] - [Equalizer]

Actual Results:  
Equalizer misses the frequencies labels.

Expected Results:  
Some numbers appearing ???

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.39-020639rc6-generic
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 John 2015-02-24 13:14:32 UTC 
The problem here is this:
  gstreamer stores "bandX" in the "name" field for each of the bands
  gstreamer stores the frequency in the "nick" (nickname) field
  phonon EffectParameter doesn't provide access to nickname field, but does give access to "name"
  amarok uses phonon EffectParameter to fill in the frequency values using the "name" field.
So amarok labels the bands "band0" to "band9"

To fix this, the following needs to happen:
1) modify Phonon EffectParameter so it can also return the "nick" field
2) modify amarok to label bands using "nick" field, instead of "name" field.
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2015-05-29 10:27:03 UTC 
Confirmed by a Plasma5 user on IRC
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-11-24 02:29:52 UTC 
This backend for Phonon is no longer maintained or supported, and has not been for quite some time. Please use the VLC backend instead--which is the recommended and maintained replacement--and see if you can reproduce the issue there. If you can, please open a new bug report at https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=phonon-backend-vlc.

Thanks a lot!