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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by digi_owl on Friday September 22, 2017 @01:24PM (#15314047)
Another "lovely" thing about PA is that will allow the loudest of the "apps" (groan) to ramp up the master control (do not recall the "feature" name right now).

Do wonder how much future hearing loss it has created by sudden spikes in volume...

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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by Symen on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:32AM (#15318658)
You are talking about "flat-volumes", I also recommend disabling it. Even forgetting the issue you mentionned, it just makes volumes harder to handle and reason about.

I wonder if they would have ever implemented this "feature" if it wasn't the default (and only) behavior on Windows...

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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by LukeShu on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:39PM (#15316095)
Oh! When all of the GUIs say sound is at max, but it's either really quiet or silent, and it turns out that it's because even though the PA volume is up, somehow ALSA (which PA ultimately uses on the backend) got muted. But this is a PA box, so you have no GUI tools to set the ALSA volume!
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