[pulseaudio-discuss] Per-app flat volume adjustment is highly unintuitive, if mathematically consistent.

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 27.05.09 13:28, Jud Craft (craftjml at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Lennart Poettering
> <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> >
> > Mate, please just read those mails I wrote yesterday.
> 
> I'm working on it, I think I'm getting better.  Note the end of this email...
> 
> > PA is not storing stream volumes relative to each other but relative
> > to the sink's reference volume.
> 
> I guess that's just a unfortunate side-effect of the logic.  Since
> only active volumes are rescaled against the reference, it means that
> closing an App X and then changing the reference volume with the rest
> of the active Apps will make that App X lose its relative position to
> the other Apps when it is relaunched.  That's the only thing I don't
> like.

Side-effect of the logic? The fact that all volumes are saved/restored
relatively to the reference volume is the very core of the logic.

Lennart

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