Any audio equalizer in Ubuntu 17.10.1

**calistoga1** · February 26th, 2018

Hi! I'm having some troubles with Pulseaudio Equalizer, it's not working with Ubuntu 17.10, So i'm on a drifting of a good equalizer, if you know any, please answer this thread.

**amino2111** · February 26th, 2018

Install the system-wide PulseAudio equalizer in Ubuntu or Linux Mint

To install the (unofficial) system-wide PulseAudio equalizer in Ubuntu, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-equalizer

Tip from WebUpd8 reader MikeEx: if you get stuttering audio while using this equalizer, edit /etc/pulse/default.pa as root with a text editor - I'll use Gedit below:

gksu gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa

And add "tsched=0" (without the quotes) to the "load-module module-udev-detect" and "load-module module-detect" lines - this is how it should look:

### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available
.ifexists module-udev-detect.so
load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0
.else
### Use the static hardware detection module (for systems that lack udev/hal support)
load-module module-detect tsched=0
.endif

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**calistoga1** · February 27th, 2018

Thanks, but that version via ppa it's not working in Ubuntu 17.10.1, because of gnome maybe ? In linux mint and another distros are working well.

**Frogs Hair** · February 27th, 2018

The package is no longer available for 17.10 . Webup8 may update the PPA for 18.04 though they state the following.

Please note that PulseAudio Equalizer is no longer maintained so if you find a bug or if it doesn't work for you and the fix isn't trivial, there's nothing I can do.

**calistoga1** · February 28th, 2018

Oh well, i will just wait for the Ubuntu's update. Thanks!

**DuckHook** · February 28th, 2018

I believe the webupd8 disclaimer is outdated.

Starting with Artful (and only with Artful), pulseaudio-equalizer is now included in Universe:

Code:

duckhook@Zeus:~$  apt show pulseaudio-equalizer
Package: pulseaudio-equalizer
Version: 1:10.0-2ubuntu3.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Source: pulseaudio
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Pulseaudio maintenance team <pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 233 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libfftw3-single3 (>= 3.3.5), libpulse0 (= 1:10.0-2ubuntu3.1), pulseaudio (= 1:10.0-2ubuntu3.1), python, python-qt4, python-sip, python-qt4-dbus, python-dbus
Breaks: pulseaudio (<< 9.0-3~)
Replaces: pulseaudio (<< 9.0-3~)
Homepage: http://www.pulseaudio.org
Download-Size: 43.8 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://mirror.it.ubc.ca/ubuntu artful-updates/universe amd64 Packages
Description: Equalizer sink module for PulseAudio sound server
 PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
 WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
 much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.
 .
 This package provides an equalizer sink and an interface to configure the
 equalizer, qpaeq.
 .
 The module is called module-equalizer-sink.

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You should be able to install it without adding any PPA. Try disabling webupd8 PPA, then:

Code:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install pulseaudio-equalizer

NOTE: you must first disable the webupd8 PPA, then run sudo apt update.

**cruzer001** · February 28th, 2018

Nice find DuckHook, it is there.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/artful/pulseaudio-equalizer

**DuckHook** · February 28th, 2018

@calistoga1

What do you mean by:

Originally Posted by calistoga1

…it's not working with Ubuntu 17.10

This is very vague. Please explain in more detail. Is it giving poor output? Does it not launch? Mine seems to be working alright, although I do notice some lag with it, which sometimes desynchronizes audio from video in Youtube.

**ukspreads** · May 5th, 2018

"There was an error importing needed librariesMake sure you have qt5 and dbus-python installed
The error that occured was:
No module named PyQt5"
That's what I get when I try to run qpaeq :/