On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 19:01:54 +0200, Maarten de Vries wrote: > It might be interesting to look at how pulseaudio did it with > flat-volumes. With flat-volumes enabled (the default nowadays except on > Ubuntu), pulseaudio always has the global volume set to the highest level > of an application and adjusts per-application volumes when the global > volume changes. The effect is that setting one application to max will just > work. Adjusting the global volume manually changes all the application > volumes rather than acting as final multiplier. > > In that scheme there is no multiplication with a global factor. Its pretty > simple and prevents some of the artifacts you would have if you have a real > global setting you factor in. > > > Interesting for comparison at least.
Yeah, but many apparently turn off flat-volumes because it is surprising and has apparently blasted volumes up suddenly in certain instances. Fedora thread with further links here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-September/214720.html --Ben _______________________________________________ mpd-devel mailing list mpd-devel@musicpd.org http://mailman.blarg.de/listinfo/mpd-devel