Disable PulseAudio flat volumes to prevent it from pushing volume level to max

Germano Massullo germano.massullo at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 21:26:55 UTC 2015


Il 17/09/2015 21:13, Andrew Lutomirski ha scritto:
>
> To clarify: did you get blasted by music or by video conference
> sounds?  If the music volume got louder, then it sounds like either a
> straight-up bug in PulseAudio (and a severe and dangerous one at that)
> or a serious bug in your video conference volume in which it adjusts
> the volume of streams other than its own.
>
> If you got blasted by video conference sounds, then I'd say it's a
> serious design flaw in PulseAudio.  PulseAudio should offer an
> easy-to-configure maximum volume (probably A-weighted power, but peak
> level works, too, if considerably less well) on a per-output basis
> with which to protect your ears.
>
> --Andy
I got blasted from the music because I was not making a conference, I
only logged into the software, so the music was the only sound I was
listening to. PulseAudio pushed the master audio level to 100%
(therefore all applications audio level changed to 100%, due flat-volume
setting).


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