EQU Graphical Equalizer XMMS Effect Plugin

EQU is a realtime graphical equalizer effect plugin that will equalize almost everything that you play through XMMS, not just the MP3s.
Source 0.6 [ gz | bz2 ], Mandrake package 0.6 [ i586.rpm ]

News

[16/05/2004] Version 0.6 has been released.
Download the source code [bz2| gz] or a Mandrake [ i586.rpm].
The new additions are a shadow mode (Thanx to Simone Lehmann again) and support for more sampling frequencies: 48K, 22K and 11K and of course, several bugfixes since the previous release
[09/05/2004] Development happening at snail speed
Development has been very very slow the last 10? months. Why? Basically I'm very busy with school stuff. I'll be done soon so I hope to devote time to the EQU by then. Still bugs are more or less being solved as they come up. Get the CVS source if you're having problems.

PS: Just for the sake of it I've created a Winamp plugin [ZIP] based on the core of the EQU. Use it under your own risk. Use Winamp 2.x preferably because version 5.x for some reason uses around 80% of the CPU in the development box WITHOUT the EQU!!. To install unzip the file and copy the DLL to your Winamp\Plugins directory and then select it from the configuration dialog.
[18/01/2004] UPDATE: XMMS 1.2.8 + EQU crashing.
I found an interaction bug when using XMMS 1.2.8 + EQU + xmms-crossfade 0.3.4: xmms-crossfade handling of the effect plugins is not the same as XMMS's so it does some unexpected calls. A workaround for this is in the CVS version now.

Still from what I've seen in my setup there shouldn't be any problems by just using XMMS 1.2.8 + EQU and any output plugin other than xmms-crossfade!

Here are the steps to workaround the XMMS 1.2.8 + EQU + xmms-crossfade 0.3.4 problem:
- Get the CVS tree, compile and install
- Get and install xmms-crossfade 0.3.4 (if you don't have it yet)
- Start with a clean configuration by editing $HOME/.xmms/config and removing the [eq_plugin] section. The whole file may be removed if it's easier for you but you will loose all the configuration info for XMMS and the other plugins
- It's important that you perform the next step completely to initialize the EQ from xmms-crossfade: Start XMMS and in the Effect Configuration tab of xmms-crossfade select EQU 0.5, check the Use plugin checkbox and click on the Configure button. The configuration window for EQU will show. Select whatever you want and click OK
That's it.
[11/01/2004] EQU 0.5 package for Mandrake is now available [ rpm ]
This RPM was not compiled with support for the SSE nor SSE2 instruction sets. So if you have a processor that supports these instructions and want a performance improvement use the source code and install from there
[10/01/2004] A new skin package is now available [ bz2 | gz ]
Grab it if you're using the CVS source of EQU so you can use the shaded mode
[09/01/2004] EQU 0.5 package for Debian sid/unstable is now available [ deb ]
If you are using woody/stable or sarge/testing try to compile from the CVS tree and report to us if it works or not (it should but is not tested yet)
Thanx to Florian Ragwitz for providing the package and the changes in the source tree.
[09/01/2004] Anybody out there with an Intel compiler?.
If you hava an Intel compiler please contact me. I'm interested in the performance difference in the EQU using the vectorization technology in that compiler. Thanx
[04/01/2004] XMMS 1.2.8 + EQU crashing.
Several users have reported that XMMS 1.2.8 seg faults when they install and try to use EQU (I'm using XMMS 1.2.8 without a problem!). For the moment the workaround is to roll back to XMMS 1.2.7. Working on this one!
[04/01/2004] Just found out that two projects are using EQU's filters.
The first one is the core library of the well known Xine. They're using a 10-band only equalizer for the audio.
The other one is a plugin for the TKS (TKScript)
Maybe it's time to put the filter code in an independent library...
[04/01/2004] New website design
What do you think? I reserve the right to ignore your complaints about the design ;)
[04/10/2003] Version 0.5 SuSE i586 RPM is available.
Download it from here. Thanx to Kai Beck.
[11/09/2003] Version 0.5 has been released.
Download the release from here.
The main feature of this release is skin support (brought to you by Simone Lehmann). You can download a tarball with skins from from here.
More skins are expected. Check Simone's site for new skins. Of course you are welcome to create your own skin and share it :) Finally, it WORKS with the recently released XMMS 1.2.8
[26/04/2003] disk_writer patch
I've modified the disk_writer output plugin to use the effect plugin since the version shipped with XMMS 1.2.7 doesn't.
You can get the patch here.
You will need XMMS' source tree (the modification was made to version 1.2.7 but you can try earlier versions of the CVS tree, it should work).
Put the patch in the directory xmms-source-tree/Output/disk_writer and do a
patch < disk_writer.patch

Then run the usual XMMS compilation/installation process. If the source tree was already 'configured' you can just do a
make && make install

in disk_writer's directory. This patch will be submitted to XMMS' bugzilla once the site it's up again.
[19/02/2003] Version 0.4 has been released
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[02/09/2002] RPM's for the PLD Linux Distribution are available from their FTP Site for several platforms.
Thanks to Blues for this.
[02/09/2002] A FAQ section has been created
[01/09/2002] Version 0.3 has been released.
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