How to Import Winamp Equalizer For Your Linux Audio Players like XMMS, Audacious etc

With most of you using Linux players like XMMS, Audacious or BMP desperately miss out equalizer presets of Winamp. For a die-hard music-aficionado who loves to hear Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue in pure Jazz can never compromise with an equalizer. The equalizer is a must have feature with any audio player. Simply you can’t do without an equalizer if you still have your ears intact for quality music. There’s a simple trick to get the equalizer in you XMMS, Audacious or BMP.

Well the steps are just a cakewalk, walk them for the sake of good music

Step 1

Either write a shell script or run the following command in your terminal

#!/bin/bash
wget https://www.xmms.org/misc/winamp_presets.gz
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.xmms/eq.preset
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.bmp/eq.preset

The script activates the presets for XMMS, Audacious and BMP.

Step 2

In case you don’t need all of them remove the unwanted categories.

Get on with rock, pop, jazz, metal …without a word. Let me know about your experiences with new equalizer.