The very fact that you need to resort to a sort of strawman attack vis-a-vis of
accusing me (and half the entirety of the Linux user community) of having hearing loss,
basically signals that you don't have a leg to stand on, and must resort to logical
fallacies to try and support your argument. Even with "perfect hearing" no one perfectly
hears the alleged range of human hearing for 20-20k hz. That makes the subject itself
entirely subjective, any declarations of absolutes that this or that makes music "better",
are therefore nonsense, just as the idea that an individuals tastes in music are better or worser.

But still i'll humor you for the moment and your claims that my hearing (and half the Linux community),
is sub-par in some way (pretty presumptuous claim that).

My hearing though undoubtedly lessened in volume, is still quite accute after decades of
working in music. The legendary Tommy Ramone once said to me "I don't know how you made us
sound so good on that cheap PA system, but thank you!". That was during the South by Southwest
music festival in Austin one year, where I ran sound for 53 bands in 5 days.

I've installed sound systems in over 16,000 vehicles, boats, airplanes, homes, and businesses.
I have a rack of trophies for wins in audio competitions for sound quality. I was part of a team
that was IASCA grand national champions in sound for the 1001+ watts Pro class for several years
running. And not for nothing as they say, but I am a musician myself, and have put my time in
behind the PA as well as in front of it.

Everything you do electronically or via software, changes the music from what the artist intended
it to sound like, even small things like replaygain. I really dislike such attempts, Pulseaudio is
an excellent example of people flailing about with a keyboard and code and making things much worse.

I use alsa precisely because it doesn't do those things by default, it doesn't re-sample, and ffplay
doesn't either, allowing pass-through of the music somewhat less tampered with.

But people who have never heard pure analog, tend to think digital is somehow better, especially if they
do a ton of processing. But do yourself a favor, attend the symphony sometime, and actually listen to
what unprocessed real analog music sounds like, it will do you good.

Well some of them are obviously...

FYI: resampling either does nothing, or it ****'s your music up. Period.

All software processing tends to do the same, and the more you heap on, the worse it gets. Having a keyboard and a grasp of coding does not make a person an expert on sound. And bulls**t you read on the internet (and copy/paste on forums) is mostly just that, means nothing in the real world.

Simple rule-of-thumb: The less electronics and software between you and your music is directly proportional to the quality of your listening experience. The digital age is the worst thing that ever happened to the quality of music.

Up now. This does not have all possible firmware you might need, this is basically vanilla Devuan, the only firmware I have added is for AMD graphics as my machine would not boot properly without it,

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … te-mini-6/

Hang tight marma-lade for a while and i'll post an updated Un-official Excalibur iso, I make them using the Mate desktop though, so it might now be what you want, and again it is NOT official Devuan.

I should have a new one up later tonight or early tomorrow, the last one in testing is only a month old, but looks like there's over 100 updates plus a new kernel that will go into this one.

@stultumanto: Just got around to checking out your project, that looks pretty intense! Got any screenshots of it in action?

Lol, if you take a look at my last screenshot and the songs in the playlist I was making, you'll learn a bit more about me.

Got to move some code around today, been letting it marinate for a few days just enjoying listening, there's a blues station out of Athens, Greece that is just amazing. I picked up some material I needed yesterday to fix one of my drumstands, so I may even make a little music myself today.

I think your posts are giving people dementia.

In Excalibur policykit-1-gnome is gone completely anyway. It is directly replaceable with the mate-polkit. Haven't tried it in XFCE but I have used it in Openbox and it works fine, it is DE agnostic as far as I know.

May need some minor tweaking, I had to replace a couple exec lines in some .desktops with a full pathway instead of just the name of the executable, but that was for some extensions, only one (one of my homemade apps) in /usr/share/applications. But other than that it dropped right in.

You should be able to go into the repo and uninstall Pulse, and when you do it will want to replace it with Pipe. Don't know about XFCE though.

In Mate that's the way it works, and then after you've installed Pipe, you can go back in and uninstall Pipe, and you'll be left with pure sweet unadulterated ALSA, which is the best. The package volumeicon-alsa will install a volume control in your systray.

You may need an ~/.asoundrc in your home folder.

alsamixergui will give you a mixer. libasound2-plugin-equal will give you an EQ (you'll need both the .asoundrc and an asound.conf in /etc for the EQ). They are terminal based apps, but there is a nice GUI app that controls both available now.

Fixed a bug in the scraper yesterday morning, then spent the rest of the day adding a playlist function, I need to clean it up and move some things around a bit, but it's completely functional. You hit the Create Playlist button and a window opens up that you can drag-n-drop music into directly from the player or your file manager. You can click the thumbnail below for a larger view.

Can you expand on that? What seems to be broken?