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adoria

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Registered: 2025-10-13

Posts: 1

Anki and spotify share the same volume level

My spotify shares the volume level with another application. Every time I change the Spotify volume level (whether I do it in pavucontrol or in Spotify itself), it also changes Anki's volume.
For example, if I'm listening to music on Spotify at 50% volume, my Anki card will also be at 50%. If I increase my music to 100%, my Anki card will sound as expected. If I turn Spotify's volume down to some low value and close it, the sound from Anki remains and is barely audible.

I use these packages if that helps:

anki-bin 25.09.2-1 (aur)
spotify-launcher 0.6.3-2.1
lib32-libpipewire 1:1.4.9-1
lib32-pipewire 1:1.4.9-1
libpipewire 1:1.4.9-1
pipewire 1:1.4.9-1
pipewire-alsa 1:1.4.9-1
pipewire-audio 1:1.4.9-1
pipewire-jack 1:1.4.9-1
pipewire-pulse 1:1.4.9-1
alsa-card-profiles 1:1.4.9-1
alsa-lib 1.2.14-1.1
alsa-plugins 1:1.2.12-5.1
alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-4
alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.14-2
alsa-utils 1.2.14-1.1
lib32-alsa-lib 1.2.14-1.1
lib32-alsa-plugins 1.2.12-1.1
libwireplumber 0.5.12-1.1
wireplumber 0.5.12-1.1
mpv 1:0.40.0-7.1

I don't know what to do about this. Arch is my first Linux OS, and I don't know how to fix this. I've tried googling several times, but I haven't found a solution. Sorry if the problem is simple, and if my English is bad.