The default music player on Debian 7.0 is Rhythmbox. At the first look, its appearance seems not so bad. Although it has the problem of displaying Chinese characters, this can be solved by changing the Exec line in /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop:
Exec=env GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING=GBK rhythmbox %U
Still, this player cannot play the lossless ape format normally although it is claimed it can. This is due to some bug in the gstreamer codec. Then, Audacious comes to my rescue, which is a descendant of XMMS. Its codec for playing ape file is monkey audio codec. With the default configuration in Audacious, its sound quality is worse than VLC. Therefore, we need to enable some plugins and the equalizer of Audacious to finely adjust its sound effect.
The enabled plugins are:
- Crystalizer: effect intensity is set to 2.1.
- Echo: delay is 176 ms, feedback is 28%, volume is 24%.
- Extra stereo: effect intensity is 2.1.
The equalizer can load some presets based on Winamp. However, the presets can be loaded only when Audacious is using Winamp classic interface instead of GTK interface. The equalizer presets are stored in the file ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset with its contents as follows:
[Presets] Preset0=Default Preset1=Classical Preset2=Club Preset3=Dance Preset4=Flat Preset5=Full Bass Preset6=Full Bass and Treble Preset7=Full Treble Preset8=Laptop speakers or headphones Preset9=Large hall Preset10=Live Preset11=Party Preset12=Pop Preset13=Reggae Preset14=Rock Preset15=Ska Preset16=Soft Preset17=Soft Rock Preset18=Techno [Default] Preamp=0 Band0=0 Band1=0 Band2=0 Band3=0 Band4=0 Band5=0 Band6=0 Band7=0 Band8=0 Band9=0 [Classical] Preamp=0.375 Band0=0.375 Band1=0.375 Band2=0.375 Band3=0.375 Band4=0.375 Band5=0.375 Band6=-4.5 Band7=-4.5 Band8=-4.5 Band9=-6 [Club] Preamp=0.375 Band0=0.375 Band1=0.375 Band2=2.25 Band3=3.75 Band4=3.75 Band5=3.75 Band6=2.25 Band7=0.375 Band8=0.375 Band9=0.375 [Dance] Preamp=0.375 Band0=6 Band1=4.5 Band2=1.5 Band3=0 Band4=0 Band5=-3.75 Band6=-4.5 Band7=-4.5 Band8=0 Band9=0 [Flat] Preamp=0.375 Band0=0.375 Band1=0.375 Band2=0.375 Band3=0.375 Band4=0.375 Band5=0.375 Band6=0.375 Band7=0.375 Band8=0.375 Band9=0.375 [Full Bass] Preamp=0.375 Band0=6 Band1=6 Band2=6 Band3=3.75 Band4=1.125 Band5=-2.625 Band6=-5.25 Band7=-6.375 Band8=-6.75 Band9=-6.75 [Full Bass and Treble] Preamp=0.375 Band0=4.5 Band1=3.75 Band2=0.375 Band3=-4.5 Band4=-3 Band5=1.125 Band6=5.25 Band7=6.75 Band8=7.5 Band9=7.5 [Full Treble] Preamp=0.375 Band0=-6 Band1=-6 Band2=-6 Band3=-2.625 Band4=1.875 Band5=6.75 Band6=9.75 Band7=9.75 Band8=9.75 Band9=10.5 [Laptop speakers or headphones] Preamp=0.375 Band0=3 Band1=6.75 Band2=3.375 Band3=-2.25 Band4=-1.5 Band5=1.125 Band6=3 Band7=6 Band8=7.875 Band9=9 [Large hall] Preamp=0.375 Band0=6.375 Band1=6.375 Band2=3.75 Band3=3.75 Band4=0.375 Band5=-3 Band6=-3 Band7=-3 Band8=0.375 Band9=0.375 [Live] Preamp=0.375 Band0=-3 Band1=0.375 Band2=2.625 Band3=3.375 Band4=3.75 Band5=3.75 Band6=2.625 Band7=1.875 Band8=1.875 Band9=1.5 [Party] Preamp=0.375 Band0=4.5 Band1=4.5 Band2=0.375 Band3=0.375 Band4=0.375 Band5=0.375 Band6=0.375 Band7=0.375 Band8=4.5 Band9=4.5 [Pop] Preamp=0.375 Band0=-1.125 Band1=3 Band2=4.5 Band3=4.875 Band4=3.375 Band5=-0.75 Band6=-1.5 Band7=-1.5 Band8=-1.125 Band9=-1.125 [Reggae] Preamp=0.375 Band0=0.375 Band1=0.375 Band2=-0.375 Band3=-3.75 Band4=0.375 Band5=4.125 Band6=4.125 Band7=0.375 Band8=0.375 Band9=0.375 [Rock] Preamp=0.375 Band0=4.875 Band1=3 Band2=-3.375 Band3=-4.875 Band4=-2.25 Band5=2.625 Band6=5.625 Band7=6.75 Band8=6.75 Band9=6.75 [Ska] Preamp=0.375 Band0=-1.5 Band1=-3 Band2=-2.625 Band3=-0.375 Band4=2.625 Band5=3.75 Band6=5.625 Band7=6 Band8=6.75 Band9=6 [Soft] Preamp=0.375 Band0=3 Band1=1.125 Band2=-0.75 Band3=-1.5 Band4=-0.75 Band5=2.625 Band6=5.25 Band7=6 Band8=6.75 Band9=7.5 [Soft Rock] Preamp=0.375 Band0=2.625 Band1=2.625 Band2=1.5 Band3=-0.375 Band4=-2.625 Band5=-3.375 Band6=-2.25 Band7=-0.375 Band8=1.875 Band9=5.625 [Techno] Preamp=0.375 Band0=4.875 Band1=3.75 Band2=0.375 Band3=-3.375 Band4=-3 Band5=0.375 Band6=4.875 Band7=6 Band8=6 Band9=5.625
After loading the Classical equalizer preset, I can enjoy my Mozart now!
Music player on Linux system for classical music: Audacious,布布扣,bubuko.com