Amarok 2.3 Broken Equalizer (Distortions)

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Hello!

As you may, not that long time ago, Amarok 2* got an equalizer.

The problem:
**Amarok 2.3 equalizer behaves differently **than equalizers in all other players I used (including Amarok 1.4). I just cannot make Amarok 2 sound right.

What I do:
I set equalizer to Full Bass + Treble preset. It is somewhat better than “Zero” preset, but it sounds too blunt (flat) nonetheless, while in Amarok 1.4 (and in Clementine) this preset sound just right for me.

Details (Amarok 2.3.0):
The most obvious difference what I see is preamp (pre-amp), which is set to 0 dB in Amarok 1.4 preset and to -4.9 dB in Amarok 2. When I try to move it up to 0 dB, while Full Bass + Treble preset is active, I get **unbearable high pitch distortions **already with pre-amp set to -2 dB. I tried playing creating my own preset, but I cannot get the same sound as in Amarok 1.4.

In other words:
is there any way to make Full Bass + Treble preset Amarok 2.3.0 sound like Amarok 1.4 preset?

I am not an audio expert of any kind, but Amarok 2.3.0 just sounds different (in a bad way) for me. Maybe I am missing something?

Thank you for your help.

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I had similar problems and ended up re-installing Amarok 1.4 using the KDE3 repository from opensuse.org. But since then I came across Exaile which is an Amarok 1.4 look-alike that can be installed directly from Yast using the Packman repository. I installed it on another distribution (now deleted) so I can’t vouch for it’s working exactly the same.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks for the tip, ionmich. I will try exaile, though I am afraid it will be “too gnome” for me.

Actually, it is not hard to use Amarok 1.4 thanks to excellent openSUSE repositories. But someday its packages will be dropped, not speaking of the support (it is not supported anymore as far as I know by the developers). So I am trying to migrate.

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I fumbled around with the manual settings until I had what I wanted, then saved it as a personal setting. Used the laptop and “ssh -X” to set this on my system, just to be not too close to the speakers.