How to install 10 Band Equalizer for Rhythmbox

I like Rhythmbox on Ubuntu Desktop but it does not come with an equalizer out of the box. Fortunately, there is a 10 band equalizer that you can install as a plugin and it works really well.

Here are the steps to install the 10 band equalizer with Rhythmbox version 3 and later:

• Create a directory under your home directory for storing the 10 band equalizer plugin
• mkdir -p ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/
• Go to the newly created directory and get the source for the plugin from GitHub
• cd ~/.local/share/rhythmbox/plugins/
• git clone git://github.com/luqmana/rhythmbox-plugins
• Now go to the equalizer plugin directory and install the plugin
• cd rhythmbox-plugins/equalizer
• sudo apt-get install gir1.2-gconf-2.0 python-lxml
• ./install.sh --rb3
• Open Rhythmbox and go to the Tools → Plugins... menu and enable the equalizer

• Finally, you can go to Tools → Equalizer and change the settings to suit your music taste

That's it! Happy equalizing!