[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 93010] New: paplay starts playing stereo files with too high volume

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93010

            Bug ID: 93010
           Summary: paplay starts playing stereo files with too high
                    volume
           Product: PulseAudio
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: tools
          Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: chrysn at fsfe.org
        QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
                CC: lennart at poettering.net

(This was found while enhancing an instant messenger's event sound integration
over at http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/8192 but seems to be generic; sample audio
files referenced can be found in
http://gajim.org/downloads/0.16/gajim-0.16.4.tar.bz2 )

When I use paplay on mono wav files, they play smoothly with the volume set the
last time that name was used (when using `-n gajim`) or the system event olume
(when using `--property=media.role=event`), that's the case with samples
message1.wav or bounce.wav.

When I use it on stereo files like connected.wav or disconnected.wav, the first
(guessed) 0.2s are played at what sounds like full volume, dropping to the
configured (or, it's hard to tell, maybe below). This is only observed
acustically, in `pavucontrol` the stream shows at the configured volume from
the start and until it disappears after the file was played.

If you don't want to download the files, they are identified by `file` as
follows:

    message1.wav:     RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16
bit, mono 44100 Hz
    disconnected.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16
bit, stereo 44100 Hz

I'm using debian sid with what I assume to be a standard configuration
(session-mode).

Some details that could be relevant (output of `pactl info`):

    Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
    Library Protocol Version: 30
    Server Protocol Version: 30
    Is Local: yes
    Client Index: 9
    Tile Size: 65472
    User Name: chrysn
    Host Name: hephaistos
    Server Name: pulseaudio
    Server Version: 7.1
    Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
    Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
    Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo
    Default Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_14.2.analog-stereo.monitor
    Cookie: 791a:a26f

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