

Observe that the pulseaudio volume also increases to 100%.ĥ) Quit rhythmbox. Note by how many dB you lowered the volume.ģ) Start rhythmbox and start playing observe that both the rhythmbox and pulseaudio volume decreases.Ĥ) While playing, raise the rhythmbox volume slider all the way to 100%. Perhaps the other applications are doing something similar it's possible that what I'm describing has roots in gstreamer too.ġ) Lower the main pulseaudio volume (perhaps through g-v-m) while rhythmbox is not running or is paused, but not down to mute. The two causes are:ġ) Changes in the main pulseaudio volume made while rhythmbox is not running are then added to rhythmbox's previous volume level to produce a new main volume the next time rhythmbox starts.Ģ) The original pulseaudio volume level from before rhythmbox was started is restored when rhythmbox is quit.Īlso, somebody's not doing bounds checking and is allowing volumes over 0dB. I've found a way to not only duplicate the problem in rhythmbox and to reset things.

Is it correct that this only occurs sometimes with banshee, as opposed to every single track/stop/start with rhythmbox? I haven't been able to reproduce this with banshee. Note that I can completely remove the Audigy 2 card or disable the internal audio in the motherboard BIOS and still see this issue, so I don't believe that it's a problem of the two soundcards having different latency settings. This happens on track changes if I don't have crossfade enabled, and does not happen on track changes (but still happens when pausing and then playing again) if crossfade is enabled with 0s. Audio resets to a number over 100% whenever playback is started on rhythmbox. When I have pulseaudio set to use the on-board audio, I get exactly the behavior mentioned here. When I have pulseaudio set to use the emu10k1 card, I get exactly the behavior I described when I filed bug 488532. I have a soundcard (Audigy 2 variant using emu10k1 driver) and onboard sound (AMD 750 Southbridge, Realtek ALC888 chip, hda-intel codec). Now, here informations about my computer.Īmarok (of course, I was listening to music with ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release Please fix carefully this bug, it can damage ear of users! Imagine a Sennheiser hd595 at 100% volume >:8 I'm still shocked. I was on my bed with headphones listening to music and reading a book (so, without touching the computer) and SUDDENDLY the volume was setted to 100% I've just experimented this shocking bug of having SUDDENDLY the volume at 100% There's a bug with very similar symptoms here: and and I will test to see if this behaviour is repeated in other audio programs. It is while watching videos sequentially. This is indicated by gnome-volume-control-applet The exact value that volume jumps is from 100% to 141%.
