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 http://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.