At least you made it into the search ranking…..

If u have feature request please make them known to the developers this is how opensource software gets improved.

Best,
Sim

this is a very important point. lets see…software EQ from an audio player, bass boosters, normalization, replay gain – these are all destructive and disrespectful to the music just like earbuds are. you use an eq for room adjustment but generally only in a live environment so that instrumen

Adam Williamson :
Well, point by point:
1 – misdirected. This is nothing to do with Rhythmbox. All it does is define the name of icon it wants; it’s up to the desktop to provide the actual icon, which it does according either to the distro defaults or to your preferences, depending on whether you’ve set any. There’s nothing Rhythmbox could do to make you happy here besides hard-code its own icon set, which would suck. Ditto with the deps; this has nothing to do with Rhythmbox, but with your distro. The player doesn’t implement the dependencies, the distro packaging does it. It’s worth noting RB is expressly part of GNOME, it is not intended to be a platform-independent player. Using it in KDE really isn’t the idea.
2 – I believe it actually starts however you left it, so if you closed the window and then quit from the tray last time you ran it, it’ll start up in the tray last time, but if you quit with the window open, the window will be open when you run it again.
3 – It’s not possible for Rhythmbox to magically know why the files aren’t there. In your case it’s because you deleted them so this seems odd, but that’s not always the case. Fr’instance, I keep all my music on a NAS share, which sometimes isn’t mounted when I start RB. If RB promptly removed all those tracks from its database, I’d be rather fucked off. It doesn’t, it just marks them as missing, then when I mount the NAS share, it notices and they all come back quickly. Don’t assume your use case is the only one.
4 – Don’t know much about this one, sorry.
5 – reasonable point.
6 – Dunno. I don’t use that kind of feature. I find it a rather odd way to listen to music myself, but oh well.
7 – valid point again, but probably not worth that level of vitriol.
ts will “fit” into the mix, and to avoid feedback. Unless you are listening in a cave or a cathedral or perhaps underwater you should listen to it how it is meant to sound…it will already have its sweet spot eqs built in by band/producer/engineer/mastering engineer – so unless it is like Raw Power where everyone was too coked up to really know whether to make it abrasive or bassy then EQ should be avoided. (And I believe that album has two reissues, each restoring a different perspective). I would only suggest it on those occasions where the CD has been released in that 80s-90s period where they often got the mastering totally wrong going from vinyl to CD.

This is the kind of thing that always put me off getting fully involved in Foobar (apart from the fact that it, like most everything else, was completely inadequate at managing my library). (Separate rant here) I mean maybe ReplayGain isn’t compression per se, but even if it is just straight amplitude gain isn’t there going to be some sort of limiter on top, which I also presume of normalization algorithyms. I won’t even normalize with steinberg, stuffed if I am going to do it in an app that is only there to display, categorise and render the artwork towards my eardrums! If I need something louder or quieter I only have like two or three volume controls en route to the speakers (plus Remote app). The whole scenario only gets worse if you are playing a lossy format (I didn’t have the luxury of space for lossless when I started encoding my cd library a decade ago and…oh, actually think that is still the case). If you really want improvements, start with the amp/speakers then move to the DAC and your motherboard/audio interface (I love that AirTunes bypasses the m/b contamination because Realtek etc have only gone backwards).

Anyway, back vaguely on topic, I was meant to be giving Exaile and Clementine a run off… but I think Clementine has it won before the first hurdle. This is possibly a good audio player – and yes, every one I have ever used I have hated. blah

Yes I finally have a solution for you it took a bit of digging, you have to use compiz settings manager. Go to Utilty–>workarounds(make sure this box is checked) then go to “don’t wait for video sync” check the box, then go to “force full screen redraws” now check this box.

Also some other things you could do is in the ccsm go to “OpenGL” click on the texture tab put best then go to “Composite” tab(in the generl settings screen whre you found the Opengl tab) and uncheck “detect rate” then crank up the refresh rate to anything higher than it’s default that is set at 50, I set mine to anything beyond 60. This solved all my problems. Hope this helped.

To remove the delay: load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1 (Warning: It may eat your CPU, increase the value if the CPU usage is too high)

Gentoo really is a powerful distribution…. but if you don’t run:

emerge –sync && emerge -DavNut world && emerge –depclean && revdep-rebuild

like once a week _at least_ you wander off the Gentoo brick road…. it won’t be long until you end up in a world of pain… In some cases if a dependency falls out of the portage tree… and you can’t find a suitable overlay… You may end up very sorry indeed…

More than a few times I could not upgrade via portage. Granted there may well be an arcane way of manually compiling your way out of the hole, but deeper the hole the more your arse hurts… after more than a few long compiling sessions rebuilding your box… you are left with the distinct feeling the Gentoo package managers have gang raped you in some type of cyber jailhouse showers… I just hurts too much to keep picking up the Gentoo soap …

Like me, you may end up deciding that life it too short for Gentoo.

After some rehab using Arch Linux… I have moved on… I have young loving family, the sun is shining and I run Debian Linux. There is life after Gentoo.

Stonie.

Drives me nuts too. The other problem is when using a header only library and their warnings become your warnings.