Soundux Low/Silent Playback with EasyEffects (Already Solved)

[fransole]

Hello all,

I was having issues with sounds not playing or playback of sounds being very low. I couldn't find the root of the problem until I remembered that I enabled the processing of all input and output streams in EasyEffects a couple weeks ago. I did this because EasyEffects does not always save selected preferences for certain apps (Firefox, maybe because tabs run in separated processes?) This resulted in Soundux playback being passed through the noise reduction filter and the noise reduction filter did its job. I added soundux and soundux-0.2.8 to the excluded applications list and everything is now working as intended.

I know that this was due to my own configuration of EasyEffects and not fully related to Soundux. But, I spent a lot of time troubleshooting this (lol) and I am hoping that by putting this here that someone else who is googling for a solution might stumble upon this and save some time. If project maintainers feel that this is not relevant or not wanted feel free to remove this post.

Thanks for all the work you all have put in on Soundux.

Thanks,

John

[Curve]

Hey, huge thanks for the post!
I've seen others complain about soundux and EasyEffects not working together and I guess this is the solution! ^^

[fransole]

Great! In a roundabout way this might also be able to be used to add audio adjustments over sound effects although it would have to be applied to all inputs since EasyEffects does not support per-application profiles. But something like autogain or pitch shifting could be applied to one profile and then users could switch between their clean and modified profile.

Also, I just realized that the excluded applications are assigned per profile and must be saved. So the exclusions are not global.

EDIT: Hm, it applies the effect but the volume drops really low. Not sure what causes that. As I had noise reduction turned off during the test.

EDIT2: Actually I don't think it applies any effects. It's just very quiet when Soundux isn't excluded.