Ubuntu – How to have similar sound quality in Banshee and Rhythmbox (or Totem)

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I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on an Acer Aspire 6390G. With its 5.1 embedded sound system, this laptop is good at playing music using in-built speakers. The soundcard is an HDA-Intel ALC888.

When I use Rhythmbox (version 0.13.1) (or Totem) (and the in-built speakers), the sound is deep, warm, great. But with Banshee (version 1.8.0.), it is always crispy and basically of poor quality when the Banshee equalizer is disabled. I know that it is possible to fine tune Banshee sound using the equalizer, but after some time spent trying to properly adjust it without success, I decided to ask this question on askubuntu.com.

Is there a way to get the same sound quality in Banshee as in Rhythmbox (or Totem) or keeping on adjusting Banshee equalizer is the only alternative to try to solve this problem ?
(If the answer is the latter, is there anyone who would be kind enough to provide me his equalizer settings ?)

Thanks all for your answers.

Best Answer

It happens that I was able to fix somehow this problem.

I ran gstreamer-properties and noticed that the default output plugin was set on "autodetect". I looked at the available plugins and closed the gstreamer-properties windows while "autodetect" was still chosen as the default output plugin. When I ran Banshee, the sound was then identical to the one produced by either Rhythmbox or Totem.

In order to try to reproduce and understand the previous problem, I successively chose, as default output plugins, ALSA, ESD and PulseAudio Sound Server. In all cases, the sound between the three applications was strictly identical.

Calling gstreamer-properties seems to have fix this problem.

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