Mplayer Equalizer
Published on Oct 04, 2020 by Sachin.

I am a big fan of Mplayer and that is the only media player I have on my system¹ and if you are like me who prefer to use it without GUI, customizing the Equalizer settings can be bit tedious from the command-line. Hence I have maintained the Bash script since past couple of years to make the experience better.

Install/Setup

Download the Bash script:

curl https://gitlab.com/psachin/bash_scripts/-/raw/master/mplayer_eq.sh -o mplayer_eq.sh

Source the Bash script in ~/.bashrc:
```
source /path/to/mplayer_eq.sh
```

Usage

Open a new terminal window/tab and execute mplayer-eq:

mplayer-eq

Demo

Here’s the screen-cast with mplayer-eq in action. Cheers!

ChangeLog

17 Feb, 2020:
- Only update the equalizer settings in the config file.
- Use ’q’ to quit.
16 May, 2018: Display equalizer setting names.
04 Dec, 2015: Converted mplayer-eq to Bash function.
22 Jan, 2015: Implementation(first commit).

Footnotes:

Fedora 31 Mplayer issue

Mplayer Equalizer Published on Oct 04, 2020 by Sachin.