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Stythys

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-18

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MPD music

hey guys. tryin' out mpd here...the music started out pretty loud, so I had to turn down the PCM volume, but that turns down the volume of everything else so that it's really quiet. any way around this?

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skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: MPD music

Of course! Just comment out the ALSA mixer in your MPD configuration file and uncomment the "software" mixer a few lines down.

xaw

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From: Chapel Hill

Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 177

Re: MPD music

If you want to have MPD using a different volume from all of your other apps globally on your system, I'd suggest making a separate volume control that MPD can use in /etc/asound.conf

pcm.mpdvol{
  type softvol
  slave.pcm "dmixer"
  control{
    name "MPD"
    card 0
  }
}

Something akin to the above would be how one might go about setting up such a control with alsa.

Last edited by xaw (2008-06-05 00:53:07)

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Stythys

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 878

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Re: MPD music

thanks

Last edited by Stythys (2008-06-05 01:14:19)

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