Bug 868077

Summary:	Banshee 2.6.0 resets volume to 100% when start playing
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks>
Component:	banshee	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	chkr, msdeleonpeque, nathaniel, Stephen_Hatfield, tcallawa
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Description Valdis Kletnieks 2012-10-19 03:19:18 UTC

Description of problem:
Assume the pulseaudio volume is set to 50%.  When you launch banshee, it stays at 50% - but when you hit 'play', it  gets reset to 100% (which can be quite the surprise if you had it set low because 100% is way too loud).  This is new behavior with 2.6.0 - 2.4.1-2 respected the volume setting.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
banshee-2.6.0-1.fc18.x86_64

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Comment 1 Stephen Hatfield 2013-02-08 00:45:03 UTC

I'm seeing the same symptoms on an HP/Compaq nx6325 laptop, fedora 18 and banshee 2.6.0 and did not have the problem with 2.4.1 and earlier versions of Banshee.

Comment 2 Valdis Kletnieks 2013-02-08 01:12:41 UTC

Found a hack-around for this, which turns out to be a PulseAudio bogosity:

In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf add a line:

flat-volumes = no

From the manpage for pulse-daemon.conf:

       flat-volumes=  Enable  'flat' volumes, i.e. where possible let the sink
       volume equal the maximum of the volumes of the inputs connected to  it.
       Takes a boolean argument, defaults to yes.

In other words, by default if *any* program sets its own volume to 100, pulseaudio slams the master volume to 100.

I've opened bug #908991 against PulseAudio for this wretched misbehavior, and will try to make this a dupe of that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 908991 ***

Comment 3 Peque 2013-07-02 19:26:21 UTC

So, once this bug has been closed as WONTFIX in #908991, will it be reopened and fixed in Banshee? It is preventing many Fedora users from using Banshee as music player... :-S

Comment 4 Stephen Hatfield 2013-07-02 20:06:49 UTC

I have found the work around in comment # 2 to be a good fix for my system, allowing me to use Banshee and other programs with sound from cranking my master audio to 100% and force me into racing to find the volume controls . . .