Flatsonar

Virtual Surround

by Berny23

3D sound for headphones

Sandboxed Verified creator MIT v1.3.1

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About

Just open the settings of your favorite game or media player and select real 7.1 or 5.1 audio output. Do not use any additional in-game virtualization setting (like a “headphone” or "3D audio" profile).

Features:

  • Enable/Disable seemlessly, without changing your default device, writing config files or restarting the audio service
  • Drop in your own HRIR WAV files as virtualization presets, same as HeSuVi on Windows
  • Run it in the background with a system tray icon (enable it in the app's settings)
  • Compatible with EasyEffects and most similar apps

Please note: This app requires the PipeWire audio system. Recent Linux distributions use this by default, so don't worry about it.

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to xdg-run/pipewire-0
    --filesystem=xdg-run/pipewire-0
  • access to xdg-config/kdeglobals
    --filesystem=xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro
  • talks to com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
    --talk-name=com.canonical.AppMenu.Registrar
  • talks to org.kde.kconfig.notify
    --talk-name=org.kde.kconfig.notify
  • talks to org.kde.KGlobalSettings
    --talk-name=org.kde.KGlobalSettings
  • system tray
    --talk-name=org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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