He doesn't even have a basic understanding of human hearing Steve, he seems to believe that everyone has the exact same hearing across all frequencies unless it's been damaged. He's maybe stumbled upon something that fills in the weak spots in his own hearing, and now assumes that's what's right for everyone.

Fletcher-Munson curve was like day one back in tech school.

Well, it's not a pain in the ass if you don't need/want multiple sound sources playing at the same time. And I am totally fine with alsa passing the music along without screwing with it too much.

Also, you lose system beeps altogether if you're running pure alsa, but weirdly enough if you have music already playing, you'll get the system beeps, lol.

EDIT: To be clear, I am not trying for anything "bit-perfect", just trying to have the least amount of software possible between the music and me.

Re-sampling is crap. Music pollution. Nothing more.

Another mountain of work the last two days, squashing bugs, then squashing the bugs and regressions from the previous bug-fix etc etc. It's like Murphy's Law, you squash 3 bugs and 2 new ones appear. Converted all the pathways in the scripts for a standard install, the re-scan for new playlists button went bye-bye as it will now auto-update on any new playlists. I used that button for a new function to add radio stations, simple gui dialog with a sanity check to probe the stream inputted to see if it's valid before saving it to the radio DB

It's fairly easy to make something that does a basic job of doing what you want, MUCH harder to make it behave properly. Helluva ride this project has been for me.

Steve's right, and crap like this is why I don't use sound servers/mixers. Alsa has no daemon, it starts up when called on to work. Pulse has a daemon, I imagine Pipe does too though i've never used it.

Like I said before, Mate has it's own mixer built in and I imagine KDE does too, so now the OP has 3 mixers stacked on top of each other if using Pulse and Pipe both.

FYI on Excalibur, there's some boot-up errors on the versions i've tried, complaining about some missing alsa rules file, that's actually not missing.

Kinda confusing here, do you have Pipewire installed? From those messages it doesn't seem like it.

I know nothing about KDE, but I imagine that like Mate it probably already has it's own mixer installed, so in reality you don't need Pulse or Pipe for sound.

Support for Wayland is not mostly standard. If you're going to use it, you should know it has many shortcomings.

Really the problem mostly is in the default theme that gets applied on a standard install of Mate, which is Menta, most of the other themes shipped with it already change the colors of the interior panes of caja. Menta and it's icons are the main culprit, maybe just need to change what the default theme is, the Phenix clearlooks stuff looks okay, as does Blue Submarine.
Here's a screenshot of what i'm speaking of:

Added a button to re-scan the system for new apps and rebuild the database. I thought of it as kind of a throwaway app but it's growing on me, I sometimes forget I have things installed.

EDIT: new version 1.0-7 uploaded now.

^^ Yes, but a picture is worth a 1000 words.

Memes are about words and wit. A meme is very often a simple analogy or a metaphor. And metaphors are the most powerful form of data compression in the real (not digital) world, the ability to impart large amounts of info with just a few words and a picture is frequently quite amazing.

FYI I qualify with all the terms in your sig line, but I am Chaotic Good.

I haven't tried to install it, but just looking at the instructions I see you're using dpkg to install, and that's why you're missing depends as dpkg cannot resolve them. Wouldn't it be better to use apt-get?

I only use dpkg when I know for a fact that I already have all depends installed.

Oh ffs...that's the dumbest thing i've read all day. This kind of crap reminds me of the one time many years ago when I tried windoze vista.

What's next? some special files, possibly another partition, and a security challenge before you're allowed to see your own grub boot screen?

Oh wait, i'm pretty sure I just described UEFI...never mind.