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RobinJ

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From: Belgium, Europe

Registered: 2012-01-05

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PulseAudio application-specific volume mess

PulseAudio has this feature (or bug, if you ask me) that allows you to set different volumes for every application. It allows you to do so either via the Gnome sound configuration or via pavucontrol.

Sometimes all of a sudden it decides to reset my volume only for the app that is currently in foreground to 100%, which is basically the same as lowering the volume for every other application that is currently running. The big problem with this is that the only way I have found to simply reset all of these volumes back to 100% is by removing the PulseAudio configuration, because otherwise some applications are always going to have lower volumes than others. (I have to wonder which genius forgot to add a reset button for these.)

Is there any way I can just disable application-specific volumes alltogether? I'd like to have just one single volume setting instead of this mess. If I want my music to be softer I'll change that setting in the music player itself.

Thanks.

R00KIE

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Re: PulseAudio application-specific volume mess

Is there any way I can just disable application-specific volumes alltogether? I'd like to have just one single volume setting instead of this mess. If I want my music to be softer I'll change that setting in the music player itself.

Thanks.

Yes there is, set flat-volumes to yes in daemon.conf and restart pulseaudio

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: PulseAudio application-specific volume mess

In addition to that... module-stream-restore with restore-volume set to false.

And related reading: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar … MyVolumes/ even with a way to do the exact change you want