Music player on Linux system for classical music: Audacious

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The default music player on Debian 7.0 is Rhythmbox. At the first look, its appearance seems not so bad. Although it has the problem of displaying Chinese characters, this can be solved by changing the Exec line in /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop:

Exec=env GST_ID3_TAG_ENCODING=GBK rhythmbox %U

Still, this player cannot play the lossless ape format normally although it is claimed it can. This is due to some bug in the gstreamer codec. Then, Audacious comes to my rescue, which is a descendant of XMMS. Its codec for playing ape file is monkey audio codec. With the default configuration in Audacious, its sound quality is worse than VLC. Therefore, we need to enable some plugins and the equalizer of Audacious to finely adjust its sound effect.

The enabled plugins are:

Crystalizer: effect intensity is set to 2.1.
Echo: delay is 176 ms, feedback is 28%, volume is 24%.
Extra stereo: effect intensity is 2.1.

The equalizer can load some presets based on Winamp. However, the presets can be loaded only when Audacious is using Winamp classic interface instead of GTK interface. The equalizer presets are stored in the file ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset with its contents as follows:

[Presets]
Preset0=Default
Preset1=Classical
Preset2=Club
Preset3=Dance
Preset4=Flat
Preset5=Full Bass
Preset6=Full Bass and Treble
Preset7=Full Treble
Preset8=Laptop speakers or headphones
Preset9=Large hall
Preset10=Live
Preset11=Party
Preset12=Pop
Preset13=Reggae
Preset14=Rock
Preset15=Ska
Preset16=Soft
Preset17=Soft Rock
Preset18=Techno

[Default]
Preamp=0
Band0=0
Band1=0
Band2=0
Band3=0
Band4=0
Band5=0
Band6=0
Band7=0
Band8=0
Band9=0

[Classical]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=0.375
Band1=0.375
Band2=0.375
Band3=0.375
Band4=0.375
Band5=0.375
Band6=-4.5
Band7=-4.5
Band8=-4.5
Band9=-6

[Club]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=0.375
Band1=0.375
Band2=2.25
Band3=3.75
Band4=3.75
Band5=3.75
Band6=2.25
Band7=0.375
Band8=0.375
Band9=0.375

[Dance]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=6
Band1=4.5
Band2=1.5
Band3=0
Band4=0
Band5=-3.75
Band6=-4.5
Band7=-4.5
Band8=0
Band9=0

[Flat]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=0.375
Band1=0.375
Band2=0.375
Band3=0.375
Band4=0.375
Band5=0.375
Band6=0.375
Band7=0.375
Band8=0.375
Band9=0.375

[Full Bass]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=6
Band1=6
Band2=6
Band3=3.75
Band4=1.125
Band5=-2.625
Band6=-5.25
Band7=-6.375
Band8=-6.75
Band9=-6.75

[Full Bass and Treble]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=4.5
Band1=3.75
Band2=0.375
Band3=-4.5
Band4=-3
Band5=1.125
Band6=5.25
Band7=6.75
Band8=7.5
Band9=7.5

[Full Treble]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=-6
Band1=-6
Band2=-6
Band3=-2.625
Band4=1.875
Band5=6.75
Band6=9.75
Band7=9.75
Band8=9.75
Band9=10.5

[Laptop speakers or headphones]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=3
Band1=6.75
Band2=3.375
Band3=-2.25
Band4=-1.5
Band5=1.125
Band6=3
Band7=6
Band8=7.875
Band9=9

[Large hall]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=6.375
Band1=6.375
Band2=3.75
Band3=3.75
Band4=0.375
Band5=-3
Band6=-3
Band7=-3
Band8=0.375
Band9=0.375

[Live]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=-3
Band1=0.375
Band2=2.625
Band3=3.375
Band4=3.75
Band5=3.75
Band6=2.625
Band7=1.875
Band8=1.875
Band9=1.5

[Party]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=4.5
Band1=4.5
Band2=0.375
Band3=0.375
Band4=0.375
Band5=0.375
Band6=0.375
Band7=0.375
Band8=4.5
Band9=4.5

[Pop]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=-1.125
Band1=3
Band2=4.5
Band3=4.875
Band4=3.375
Band5=-0.75
Band6=-1.5
Band7=-1.5
Band8=-1.125
Band9=-1.125

[Reggae]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=0.375
Band1=0.375
Band2=-0.375
Band3=-3.75
Band4=0.375
Band5=4.125
Band6=4.125
Band7=0.375
Band8=0.375
Band9=0.375

[Rock]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=4.875
Band1=3
Band2=-3.375
Band3=-4.875
Band4=-2.25
Band5=2.625
Band6=5.625
Band7=6.75
Band8=6.75
Band9=6.75

[Ska]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=-1.5
Band1=-3
Band2=-2.625
Band3=-0.375
Band4=2.625
Band5=3.75
Band6=5.625
Band7=6
Band8=6.75
Band9=6

[Soft]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=3
Band1=1.125
Band2=-0.75
Band3=-1.5
Band4=-0.75
Band5=2.625
Band6=5.25
Band7=6
Band8=6.75
Band9=7.5

[Soft Rock]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=2.625
Band1=2.625
Band2=1.5
Band3=-0.375
Band4=-2.625
Band5=-3.375
Band6=-2.25
Band7=-0.375
Band8=1.875
Band9=5.625

[Techno]
Preamp=0.375
Band0=4.875
Band1=3.75
Band2=0.375
Band3=-3.375
Band4=-3
Band5=0.375
Band6=4.875
Band7=6
Band8=6
Band9=5.625