[pulseaudio-discuss] pavucontrol: Allow volume adjustment of apps that play sounds only briefly

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Julian Sikorski at 20/11/12 17:09 did gyre and gimble:
> W dniu 20.11.2012 11:04, Tanu Kaskinen pisze:
>> > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 07:29 +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>>> >> W dniu 19.11.2012 13:48, Arun Raghavan pisze:
>>>> >>> The GNOME and pavucontrol UIs do actually expose event sound volumes
>>>> >>> regardless of whether an event sound is actually playing. Unfortunately,
>>>> >>> the Skype folks just tag all their streams as phone streams (even the
>>>> >>> event sounds), so that volume does not apply. The only real fix for this
>>>> >>> at the moment is to reduce the volume on a Skype call (and yes, this
>>>> >>> does suck, but there isn't anything we can do about this).
>>> >>
>>> >> I think it was fixed in 4.1. At least event sounds don't mute the music
>>> >> players anymore.
>> > 
>> > But the event sound volume controls in pavucontrol etc. still don't
>> > affect Skype's event sounds? A snippet of verbose pulseaudio log showing
>> > how the Skype events look nowadays would probably be useful.
>> > 
> Actually it works, I should have checked before posting here. In any
> case, here is the log snippet you requested (produced using Skype's
> sound test):

Is it fully fixed now? For a very long time now (years) they have tagged
*some* of their event sounds properly, but not all of them.

I know the Skype dev I spoke to about it previously was a aware of the
problem and thought he know why so hopefully this has been fixed for
good now :)

Col

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