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stickychickenjohnson

Member

From: The Moon

Registered: 2013-01-30

Posts: 20

KDE sounds are much too loud

After doing a system update a few weeks ago, all of a sudden, no matter what the master volume currently is set to, KDE blares the notification noises at 100%. It is quite a bother. I have tried fiddling with the sound channel levels in alsamixer, but to no avail. After searching for the problem on the internet, I found one other person with the same problem, but I couldn't get his solution to work for me:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=104786.0
Namely, my PCM volume was already higher than the master volume.
Thank you for your time.

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,225

Re: KDE sounds are much too loud

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324975 for a possible workaround

korn36

Member

Registered: 2014-01-14

Posts: 111

Re: KDE sounds are much too loud

I'll quote my reply from another thread on that issue:

Go to notification settings in the KDE system settings, then switch to player settings tab, and change that volume thing to around 20%

stickychickenjohnson

Member

From: The Moon

Registered: 2013-01-30

Posts: 20

Re: KDE sounds are much too loud

Thanks for the replies. I was able to solve (a ramshackle solution, but one that works) this by uninstalling pulseaudio and simply using alsa.

nsl

Member

Registered: 2012-09-09

Posts: 3

Re: KDE sounds are much too loud

Hello,
This solution form bug discussion helped me:
>>So the solution - in my case at least - was to edit the /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and set "flat-volumes = no"

sirdeiu

Member

Registered: 2013-03-11

Posts: 10

Re: KDE sounds are much too loud

flat-volumes = no is a better default in my opinion also. Don't know why pulseaudio devs don't set that default. It helps with keeping the master volume level the same regardless of any applications that change their volume which would affect the master volume also by having yes instead of no in the option above.

palmaway

Member

Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 63

Re: KDE sounds are much too loud

I solved using "/usr/bin/paplay" as a custom player for notifications (the playback options in the system notifications tab of KDE control center).

EDIT: never mind, that apparently didn't work...

EDIT 2: nope, it actually does work! Just had to restart KDE!

Last edited by palmaway (2014-07-16 02:12:55)