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FluidEQ 0.8.0

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@StartSWest StartSWest released this 05 Aug 16:39
· 482 commits to main since this release

New

  • Equalizer APO comes with FluidEQ. It is inside the installer — nothing is
    downloaded and there is no second website to visit. Setup offers to run it,
    and APO's own installer opens so you can choose which audio devices to
    equalise and get its restart prompt from the tool that owns it. Already have
    Equalizer APO? It is left completely alone, whatever version it is. This was
    the worst moment in getting started and it is gone.
  • Uninstalling asks whether to remove Equalizer APO too, and defaults to
    No. It is a system-wide audio component and other applications may be relying
    on it, so removing it is never the quiet default. Updating never asks.
  • The Install APO button inside the app runs the bundled copy rather than
    opening a download page.

Changed

  • The equaliser is properly inert without Equalizer APO. The window still
    opens, the meter still runs and the graph still draws — the app is worth
    looking at either way — but every control that writes to the config greys out
    rather than looking live over an engine that is not installed.
  • The share card opens in its own window. It used to replace the game
    inside the support panel, which meant a picture the size of the panel trying
    to fit inside that panel; on a short screen the buttons that save and post it
    ended up below the fold.
  • The support panel fits a short screen. It gives things up in order of how
    little they are missed rather than shrinking everything at once — first the
    spacing tightens, then the aside about how the app was built goes, and last
    the QR code, since anyone on a window that short is at a desk and the link
    beside it does the same job in one click.