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TrevorSatori / kronos

Terminal Music Player Written In Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Audio doesn't sound as good as other media players #19

Closed gondolyr closed 1 year ago

gondolyr commented 1 year ago

This is highly subjective, however, when I listen to the same track with other media players like mpv, they sound better than the backend kronos is using.

I'm using Pop!_OS 22.04, which defaults to PipeWire. I noticed that when I'm using kronos, it is using ALSA, though I'm not sure if this is what's causing this difference I'm hearing. It's also possible that mpv is using an equilizer by default. Perhaps this can be remedied with an equilizer in the future.

For now, I wanted to document this discrepency I noticed and will continue to investigate.

TrevorSatori commented 1 year ago

After a bit of thought I believe this perceived quality is from the crates others are using, specifically FFMPEG. I specifically wanted to avoid using this to minimize dependencies needed, not sure of further action to be done.