I know right?

That's nonsense.
1. Nobody uses an EQ like that, it's an equalizer not a dedicated booster, it's just as easy to lower the annoyingly loud frequencies as it is to boost up the ones we can't hear so well.
2. Flat response sounds like shit to everyone's ears, especially on a laptop, it's just awful.

Bro you should try AlsaTune, it's basically made for what you're trying to do, and you can switch soundcards/devices right from the GUI. Plus you get a custom (if you want it) .asoundrc that provides basic mixing functions, and you also get a global 10-band EQ (provided by libasound-plugins-equal). All native alsa with no Pulse or Pipe.

If your chosen DE already has a mixer, then .asoundrc won't help you. What DE or window manager are you running?

Okay, maybe i'm misunderstanding the OP and what he wants to accomplish. FWIW, the method I described above works like this:

I boot my machine, I open my file-manager and there in the treeview to the left it displays my other partitions, they are there but not mounted, I left-click one time on one and it mounts it and opens it for me. It's natural and intuitive and fast.

If that's the desired behavior then what I suggested should work for you.

/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.policy

Edit as needed.

<!-- Mounting filesystems -->
<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount">
  <description>Mount a filesystem</description>    
  <message>Authentication is required to mount the filesystem</message>    
  <defaults>
    <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
    <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
    <allow_active>yes</allow_active>   <<<--------change "auth_admin_keep" to a "yes" as shown here.
  </defaults>
</action

@rations, bro you made my whole day and put a smile on my face that's still there, really motivated me to do some good work today, thank you!!!

I think together we are doing some great stuff on this forum in the area of sound, really looking forward to the future, once I have some stuff squared away I want to join you guys in working more with Jack, I have a lot of reading to do first though, lol, i'm still a noob pretending to be a programmer.

Bugs so far...

Issue #1 - I neglected to triple check, and so I have a bunch of output going to ~./xsession-errors, most normal operation messages from ffplay, I had rooted those out at one point...arrgh. Also a few of the typical glib-gio errors that seem to plague that file.

Issue #2 - I need to expand the list of mimetypes the music scraper looks for, right now it's just .mp3, flac, and ogg. Those were just the three I had on my machine when I was working on the scraper and never did add to 'em.

I think i'll pull the package for now, that error-spamming is too much.

Update: I did actually fix the normal operations messages, I was reading some messages from a different script I was playing with, so that part's good. Still getting like 11 glib-gobject warnings that pop up right when you start the app and that's it unless there's an actual error. Man if I had a dollar for every time those warnings pop up...working on it now.

The music scraper will be easy, just need to add a few more mimetypes to the script I think, .wav for one, just wondering what all formats I should add, the first 3 are just what I had available for original testing.

@rations are all your music files in that folder .wav files? If so that's the reason, I set the scraper script to hunt for /mp3, flac. and .ogg a long time ago and never did add any more mime types, that's definitely going on the to-do list for the next version.

If it's a folder with mixed formats then I need to keep digging here.

Yep, the Obsession logout app for openbox is well over 10 years old at this point, lol, but still works!

Lots of others in there that are actively maintained but for some reason debian won't update them, like Yad is especially old and buggy but for some reason they won't update to any one of the dozen newer versions available.

I should have mentioned from the get-go that this is built on daedalus libraries and probably won't work on excalibur. arrrgh.

Packaged it up finally and ready for testing if anyone has a little time to do so!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … apps/VSMP/

Vuu-do Simple Music Player, no frills, no features, plain interface. Just music.

  * Builds a local music database from ~/Music and a radio database automatically
    on first run.
  * Re-scan function for adding new local music.
  * Simple dialog to add new radio stations to the database.
  * Supports mp3, ogg, and flac for local playback.
  * Supports mp3 and aac radio streams.
  * Create and save playlists with a drag-and-drop interface.
  * Record internet radio streams, with options to split and name tracks or
    save as a single file.
  * Integrates with AlsaTune for real-time audio tweaks (if installed).

VSMP is made to be brute simple, there is no replay-gain or re-sampling done by
the player, just pure unfiltered music. Controls are easy, this is a set-and-forget
type of app for those who just want to start the music, minimize the player and get
on with other tasks. There is no provision to right-click a music file in your file
manager and open it in this app, playing a single song is already an option in the
context menu in Vuu-do so no need. It also currently does not support playing music
directly from a CD in your optical drive, that would be less-simple, but may be a
future option, for now I recommend Asunder for ripping CD's to your HD/SSD and
adding to your collection.

To play music, first select station/album/playlist in the treeview, then select
the track to start with in the main pane and then hit "play". The "Pause" button
toggles pause on/off.

To add a new playlist just click that button and a drag-n-drop window opens on top
of other windows, so you can add songs from your file-manager or from the main pane
of the player itself, note that when adding from the player's main pane you can only
grab one song at a time, but in your file manager you can select multiple songs and
drag them all at once. Note that you can't grab a whole folder and drag/drop it,
only songs at this time. To delete playlists no longer wanted, open your file-manager
to ~/.local/share/vsmp/playlists and delete the ones you don't want.

Adding a radio station is easy, just click that button and fill in the form that pops
up. The first field "Provider" can be anything you choose, and is intended for things
like "SomaFM" and "Radio Paradise" that provide multiple stations, if in doubt just
throw up something like "Internet Radio". The station name is the next field, this also
can be anything you like, the name of the station or a descriptive title like "Blues Radio".

The last field must be precise, the URL of the stream itself. There are various ways
to find this, most stations have online players you can start that open a new window,
and frequently the URL of that window is the stream URL you need.
A nice website that hunts those pesky url's for you: https://streamurl.link/
To delete stations, open ~/.local/share/vsmp/vsmp_radio_db in your text-editor and
delete the ones you don't want. Be careful to maintain the format!

The Record Radio button does just that, you must have a station streaming to activate
this function, once started it forks off as a separate process with it's own window,
recording the station you selected until you tell it to stop. So you can listen to other
music in the player or turn it off entirely and the record function will continue to run.
It uses Streamripper for the backend and will store new tracks in your ~/Music directory.
After recording new tracks, just hit the "Re-scan Collection" button to add them to
the VSMP database.

Currently this is an alpha version, might be quirks, please let me know if you have any
issues!

~greenjeans