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 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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.
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 ***
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
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 . . .