EXPECTED RESULT In my opinion three modifications would increase Amarok's usability: 1. Modifying labels from band numbers to frequencies. 2. Adding a discretization to sliders' positions (e.g. 1.0 or 0.5 dB) 3. Decreasing amplification range from +-18.0 to +-12.0 dB - like it is common in the majority of equalizers. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS All
Just a short take on the points: 1. is a bug in unmaintained phonon-gstreamer, related report here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350735 - wontfix, unfortunately 2. No opinion here (yet?) 3. Had a quick look through image search results. Seems like there is more variation within equalizers in computer software, but actual physical hardware devices indeed very often seem to have a range of +-12.0 dB. Smaller range would probably make handling slider positions nicer, too; I think I'll try something before 3.0.2.
Git commit 1b9885cd6c3587399043513d1790f877815e94b3 by Tuomas Nurmi. Committed on 22/06/2025 at 14:10. Pushed by nurmi into branch 'master'. Implement equalizer for the new gstreamer backend Related: bug 486342 M +1 -0 src/EngineController.cpp M +45 -11 src/EngineGstPipeline.cpp M +2 -0 src/EngineGstPipeline.h M +25 -95 src/playback/EqualizerController.cpp M +3 -7 src/playback/EqualizerController.h https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/commit/1b9885cd6c3587399043513d1790f877815e94b3