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Rootsquash

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Registered: 2014-06-29

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[SOLVED] KDE/Plasma5 + PulseAudio: system notifications at 100% Volume

Hi,

I have installed Plasma 5 and Pulse Audio, the Phonon-backend is VLC. Lowering the Volume with Kmix or Pavucontrol lowers the volume of music played with Amarok, Youtube-videos and stuff like that, but system-sounds are played with max volume. I have also had the pleasure of suddenly listening to power metal at 100% volume when  Amarok started playing the next track after a system-sound was played. This is especially annoying since my headphones are quite loud (64 Ω, 113 dB/1 Vrms)). At maximum volume neither music nor system notifications are either pleasant or safe for the ears.

I have already tried to play a longer system-notification and reduce the sound in the mixer, but it won't remember that setting. I have also tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … ication.29
but the problem remains.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by Rootsquash (2015-07-29 14:21:14)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,722

Re: [SOLVED] KDE/Plasma5 + PulseAudio: system notifications at 100% Volume

It's a bug with that particular setup combination that points to a bug in either libVLC or pulseaudio or both, see one of my earlier posts about this problem that explains it in more detail.

tl:dr: switching to phonon-gstreamer might be a possibility

Last edited by V1del (2015-07-29 11:21:32)

Rootsquash

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Registered: 2014-06-29

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE/Plasma5 + PulseAudio: system notifications at 100% Volume

Hello,

switching to phonon-gstreamer an keeping flat-volumes set to no helped.

Thank you very much.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE/Plasma5 + PulseAudio: system notifications at 100% Volume

Neat, don't forget to prepend [SOLVED] to the title of your thread by editing your initial post

Rootsquash

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Registered: 2014-06-29

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE/Plasma5 + PulseAudio: system notifications at 100% Volume

Oops, forgot to do that, sorry.