EasyEffects - How to copy my former equalizer settings from PulseEffects?

[ratcheer]

I looked through the .config directories and copied the *.json files from .config/pulseeffects/output to .config/easyeffects/output

EasyEffects "sees" these files and offers a Load button for them, but clicking that button does not apply my settings; nothing changes. So, I'm apparently not doing this, correctly. How should I do it? Is it even possible?

[wwmm]

At some point in EasyEffects development I had to do a tough call. The library I was using before to handle json files (c++ Boost) was a source of headaches to many package maintainers. But when I finally found a better replacement nlohmann json I realized that it saved json files using a different convention that is incompatible with the old library.

As in a way EasyEffects is a "new application" I decided that if we were ever going to move to another library there would be no better moment than this. But now we have to deal with this preset incompatibility problem somehow. The main issue is on how the old library saved numbers. Instead of writing something like "pi": 3.14159265359 what it did was "pi": "3.14159265359". All the numbers are surrounded by quotation marks. That is not what other c++ libraries for json do.

Same problem with boolean variables. Instead of writing "enable": true the old library did "enable": "true". Hopefully in the future someone will figure out how to write a script that does the conversion. For now what you can do is using this site https://csvjson.com/json_beautifier and checking the option to remove quotes on numbers. It is on the panel at the right side. Where the processed output will be displayed. But unfortunately it does not remove quotation marks from boolean variables. So that ones with true or false will have to be fixed manually.

[Mlocik97]

I can create website that will remove quotes on both number and booleans.

[wwmm]

I can create website that will remove quotes on both number and booleans.

That would be very helpful. While we could try to have a converter embedded in EasyEffects the more people decide to have a "fresh start" in EasyEffects the less useful this code will become. And we already have too much code for the amount of people actually taking care of it.

[Mlocik97]

At least I know JavaScript so... I already started working on it.

[ratcheer]

Thank you, wwmm. I hand copied (on paper) my PulseEffects settings and recreated them in EasyEffects. They are loading, now.

However, my output volume is now much too low. I have to turn it up to +23 dB to get anything like what I was getting with PulseEffects. I have verified that the volumes are correctly set in pavucontrol and EasyEffects - all at 100%. I will open a new Issue on this, if you want.

[wwmm]

However, my output volume is now much too low. I have to turn it up to +23 dB to get anything like what I was getting with PulseEffects. I have verified that the volumes are correctly set in pavucontrol and EasyEffects - all at 100%. I will open a new Issue on this, if you want.

It is probably better to open a new issue for this. When you do that kill the current instance easyeffects -q and restart it in debug mode G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=easyeffects easyeffects so we can see what is going on. There should not be much difference in volume between EasyEffects and PulseEffects.

[ratcheer]

Will do. Thank you.

[Mlocik97]

it seems to work little, it contains bug, downloading doesn't work yet, and uploading too. But converting is working.

[wwmm]

I think it will be a good idea to create a section in the wiki for this site.

[Mlocik97]

I think it's working fine, Now I need only to fix few things and it will be complete.

[Mlocik97]

So it's working, also file upload, and file download... ofc, I still didn't fix some problems and mainly I'm not checking type of input file, so You can upload even .png file to it, it will just crash. But with correct inputs it works. I'm going to upload it to repo and give You link to website. Also website is not responsive, but I don't think it's needed because no one would use this on mobile device.