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XMMS Crystality Plugin v0.92
Realtime Bandwidth Extender, Harmonic Booster and 3D Echo.
licence: GPL
This makes low bitrate mp3's sound better, it actually works.
This plugin does mainly four things (and some minor tricks):
1. Adds some sounds in very high frequency range. Most of the mp3s in The Net
are flawed with a 16(15?) kHz cutoff. Even these ones compressed at high
bitrates. This spectrum hole is audible and very unpleasant. This plugin
helps a bit.
Old mp3s made from the vinyl or the magnetic tape may also sound better with
these "steroids". For old mp3s you'll probably need to set filter to 0.1.
2. Adds some even harmonic distortions (actually nonlinearity), that sounds
nice. Valve amps introduce even harmonic distortions (although differnt way)
Look at audiophile pages for more info (well, mp3 format is not an audiophile
stuff at all, but... welcome to the real world...).
3. Adds simple, but nice 3D echo (concert hall or church like). Most of echo
plugins sounds too hard and aggresively for me. This one does not.
4. Extends stereo.
After making some trivial changes to compile crystiality on x86_64 sid
I created a debian package. I thought I would post it for other debian
users as I didn't see it listed on any of the package lists. The
author's email address is out of date but I don't think the project is
dead. It was written by Rafal Bosak.
My package can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/kimwroblewski/debian/
xmms-crystality_0.92.orig.tar.gz
xmms-crystality_0.92-1.diff.gz
xmms-crystality_0.92-1_amd64.deb.tar.gz
Original web-site:
http://fanthom.math.put.poznan.pl/~gyver/crystality/
thanks, Kim
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