People have forgotten what "audio quality" is

[loveydovey]

I am actually familiar with all the effects in there.

Pulseeffects is what easyeffects was, at actually compiles supposedly (link), albeit EQ doesn't work, it seems.

 

[cracauer@]

Pulseeffects is what easyeffects was, at actually compiles supposedly (link), albeit EQ doesn't work, it seems.

I just looked into EasyEffects and it is missing a "ECM" package in the FreeBSD ports tree as a dependency. Any idea what "ECM" is?

 

[Micski]

Everyone now is just listening to compressed MP3s on low-wattage bluetooth speakers with SBC compression. No-one builds their own Hi-Fi systems with good speakers and amps anymore. Almost no-one listens to lossless or analog anymore. Even though the sound quality is technically worse, I go for analog almost always because of this awful loudness war that is ruining our music. I would not call myself an audiophile because that implies I have magic rocks and $1000 dollar extsnsion cords, instead I would just call myself a person who can't take the sloppy shit that is passed off as "listening" anymore.

If it's any comfort, I have always listened to music on a legendary set of massive floor speakers with corresponding amps and lossless audio. It's fantastic. You might to change that "no-one" to "one".

 

[Crivens]

Any idea what "ECM" is?

Electronic Counter Measures, maybe?

 

[covacat]

I just looked into EasyEffects and it is missing a "ECM" package in the FreeBSD ports tree as a dependency. Any idea what "ECM" is?

the ai says is something like Extra CMakeFiles but can't verify because shithub is down again
probably this

https://github.com/KDE/extra-cmake-modules

 

[cracauer@]

the ai says is something like Extra CMakeFiles but can't verify because shithub is down again
probably this

https://github.com/KDE/extra-cmake-modules

Thank you, yes. It's in ports.

But it is then missing a part of Qt6, qtpaths. We only have that for Qt5:

CMake Error at /usr/local/share/ECM/modules/ECMQueryQt.cmake:84 (message):
  No Qt6 qtpaths executable found.  Can't check QT_INSTALL_PREFIX as required

 

[drhowarddrfine]

This sounds familiar to me from my theatrical sound days. EasyEffects uses PipeWire which is available on FreeBSD.

 

[brassmonkeys]

If it's any comfort, I have always listened to music on a legendary set of massive floor speakers with corresponding amps and lossless audio. It's fantastic. You might to change that "no-one" to "one".

Make that "one" "two"
I don't need a sub-woofer, it's standard with my 3 way speakers

 

[Espionage724]

I hooked a random speaker up to replace a blown subwoofer on a cheap 2.1 pair out of a thrift store

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xNPVCxfVpN4


I don't know much about amp internals, but like the basics of connecting 2 Stereo speakers to a PC and the amp no-frills making the speakers louder. Something like that is a huge upgrade from my TV's HDMI speakers.

 

[covacat]

well current flat tv sound is pc speaker quality
when led tv first came around the sound was passable but now it is crap (maybe the higher end are a bit better but most lgs, samsungs and sonys ive seen are crap -- like a "Panashiba" boombox)

 

[brassmonkeys]

I hooked a random speaker up to replace a blown subwoofer on a cheap 2.1 pair out of a thrift store

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xNPVCxfVpN4


I don't know much about amp internals, but like the basics of connecting 2 Stereo speakers to a PC and the amp no-frills making the speakers louder. Something like that is a huge upgrade from my TV's HDMI speakers.

Well done!
Hacking at it's finest

 

[Charlie_]

But it is then missing a part of Qt6, qtpaths. We only have that for Qt5:

$ pkg info -l qt6-base | grep qtpaths
        /usr/local/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths
        /usr/local/lib/qt6/bin/qtpaths6

 

[cadahl]

Rant warning. There's no EasyEffects on FreeBSD? You can make any music sound mindblowing with that. That's one shocker about switching to FreeBSD from Linux that I am having a hard time stomaching. Is there something like EasyEffects on FreeBSD? Do you all not want to use FreeBSD to listen to amazing sound?

Post in thread 'Sound enhancers for freebsd (like old pulseeffects. or like easyeffects in linux)' https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/...r-like-easyeffects-in-linux.98204/post-706199