diff --git a/media-sound/qpaeq/Manifest b/media-sound/qpaeq/Manifest
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+DIST pulseaudio-16.1.tar.xz 1545596 BLAKE2B 535706abcea2cae39834b23c8bdc37f71b0e633de2d8e43ea4425da97a850b57c2f980c318681cbc86cf1e746200609dad41f8b96ecf4568f86d94aa6831c9a1 SHA512 33b0b4292f05e0882f3ec822cf5720414bb34c523d80fe287b9740d6be219787c562e8024c9b0d9e2ee010771ca72c7ae4f27df1bbef9c9cb6bb6a23cbcc412f
diff --git a/media-sound/qpaeq/metadata.xml b/media-sound/qpaeq/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="person" proxied="yes">
+    <email>igor.v.kovalenko@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Igor V. Kovalenko</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>sam@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Sam James</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <maintainer type="person">
+    <email>leio@gentoo.org</email>
+    <name>Mart Raudsepp</name>
+  </maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/media-sound/qpaeq/qpaeq-16.1.ebuild b/media-sound/qpaeq/qpaeq-16.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI="8"
+
+MY_PV="${PV/_pre*}"
+MY_P="pulseaudio-${MY_PV}"
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8..11} )
+inherit python-single-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Equalizer interface for equalizer sinks of PulseAudio (networked sound server)"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/"
+
+if [[ ${PV} = 9999 ]]; then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_BRANCH="master"
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/${MY_P}.tar.xz"
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+fi
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE=""
+REQUIRED_USE="${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE}"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	$(python_gen_cond_dep '
+		dev-python/PyQt5[gui,widgets,${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/dbus-python[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	')
+	>=media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1-r7[dbus,fftw]
+	!<media-sound/pulseaudio-daemon-16.1-r7
+"
+DEPEND=""
+
+BDEPEND=""
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}"
+
+src_configure() {
+	:; # do nothing
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	python_doscript src/utils/qpaeq
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "You will need to load some extra modules to make qpaeq work."
+	elog "You can do that by adding the following two lines in"
+	elog "/etc/pulse/default.pa and restarting pulseaudio:"
+	elog "load-module module-equalizer-sink"
+	elog "load-module module-dbus-protocol"
+}