Description of problem:
Pulseaudio added a new config setting:

       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.

The upshot of this is that if you have set your master volume to 45% for some reason like "other people are trying to sleep" or "you are wearing headphones and that's a good volume" or to 5% because you're in a library and want alert sounds to be just barely loud enough for you to hear, and you start up *any* process that tries to set its own audio volume to 100% (like the default behavior of Banshee), you suddenly find yourself WITH AN EARFUL OF VERY LOUD STUFF.

Who thought this was a good default behavior??!?  (And no, "fix Banshee" is *NOT* the right answer here - we shouldn't have to hunt down and fix every single client program to work around a poor choice of defaults in the daemon.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pulseaudio-3.0-5.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
Set master volume to 30% using alsamixer or other tool.
Start Banshee and hit 'play' on something.
Stand back and be amazed.

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