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title="NEW - paplay starts playing stereo files with too high volume"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93010">93010</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>paplay starts playing stereo files with too high volume
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<th>Product</th>
<td>PulseAudio
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>tools
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>chrysn@fsfe.org
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>CC</th>
<td>lennart@poettering.net
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<pre>(This was found while enhancing an instant messenger's event sound integration
over at <a href="http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/8192">http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/8192</a> but seems to be generic; sample audio
files referenced can be found in
<a href="http://gajim.org/downloads/0.16/gajim-0.16.4.tar.bz2">http://gajim.org/downloads/0.16/gajim-0.16.4.tar.bz2</a> )
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</pre>
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