Bug#694261: banshee: Banshee 3.6 does unusual, undesired things to audio playback in Debian

2012-12-21 Thread Alex Vanderpol
I just recently installed the latest version of Banshee from 
experimental (2.6.0-4) and I would like to update the status of this bug.


There no longer seems to be an issue with Banshee messing up other 
applications audio output, nor does Banshee seem to be setting audio 
output to some sort of Mono setting, audio output remains Stereo as it 
should.


Banshee is still boosting the system volume to 100% when starting 
playback. The volume can be turned down while playback is active, and 
remains lowered even after stopping and restarting playback while 
Banshee is running. Restarting Banshee will cause it to raise the volume 
again when starting playback. This should really be corrected, as having 
the system volume jump to 100% while using headphones is very hard on 
one's ears.



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Bug#694261: banshee: Banshee 3.6 does unusual, undesired things to audio playback in Debian

2012-11-24 Thread Alex Vanderpol
Package: banshee
Version: 2.6.0-1+b1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Banshee 3.6 is doing unusual things to audio playback on my system.

When I start playing music in Banshee, my system volume immediately jumps to
100%, which is very unpleasant when using headphones. Also, audio output seems
to be forced to some sort of mono output rather than proper stereo output.
While Banshee is playing audio, other system sounds and audio from other
applications is not played back correctly, once Banshee is shut down audio
playback from other applications seems to revert to normal. I can adjust the
system volume down back down while Banshee is playing, but if I stop audio
playback then restart it it gets pushed back up to 100%.

I thought at first this might be an issue with the Debian package, however
installing a package built for Ubuntu also has the same problem, while the same
package on Ubuntu does not have this problem. Both OSes are on the same
hardware, and both OSes are using the same or equivalent versions of GStreamer
packages (a number of which I've had to hold back due to causing an issue with
Banshee and Rhythmbox music playback stalling at the beginning of a FLAC track
when the previous track was an MP3...).

I'm not sure if this is a problem specific to Banshee (since a package from
Ubuntu causes the same problem on Debian but works fine on Ubuntu), but I do
not know what other package might be responsible since downgrading Banshee to
3.4 makes the problem go away.

If someone could point me in the right direction and help me narrow down the
appropriate package, I would appreciate it.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers experimental
  APT policy: (650, 'experimental'), (650, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.6-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages banshee depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme 3.6.0-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gstreamer0.10-audiosink  0.10.35-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad [gstreamer0.10-au  0.10.22-3+b1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base   0.10.35-1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good [gstreamer0.10-a  0.10.30-2.1
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio [gstreamer0.10-aud  0.10.30-2.1
ii  libboo2.0.9-cil  0.9.5~git20110729.r1.202a430-2
ii  libc62.16-0experimental0
ii  libcairo21.12.6-1
ii  libdbus-glib1.0-cil  0.5.0-4
ii  libdbus1.0-cil   0.7.0-5
ii  libgconf2.0-cil  2.24.2-2
ii  libgdata2.1-cil  2.1.0.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.26.4-2
ii  libgkeyfile1.0-cil   0.1-4
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.34.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-cil   2.12.10-5
ii  libgpod4 0.8.2-7
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0  0.10.35-1
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0   0.10.36-1
ii  libgtk-sharp-beans-cil   2.14.1-3
ii  libgtk2.0-0  2.24.13-1
ii  libgtk2.0-cil2.12.10-5
ii  libgudev1.0-cil  0.1-3
ii  libkarma00.1.2-2.3
ii  libmono-addins0.2-cil0.6.2-2
ii  libmono-cairo4.0-cil 2.10.8.1-6
ii  libmono-corlib4.0-cil2.10.8.1-6
ii  libmono-posix4.0-cil 2.10.8.1-6
ii  libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil 2.10.8.1-6
ii  libmono-system-core4.0-cil   2.10.8.1-6
ii  libmono-system-xml4.0-cil2.10.8.1-6
ii  libmono-system4.0-cil2.10.8.1-6
ii  libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil  0.9.0-4
ii  libmtp9  1.1.5-1
ii  libnotify0.4-cil 0.4.0~r3032-5
ii  libpango1.0-01.30.1-1
ii  libsoup-gnome2.4-1   2.40.1-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1 2.40.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0 3.7.14.1-1
ii  libtaglib2.0-cil 2.0.4.0-1
ii  libwebkitgtk-1.0-0   1.9.2-1
ii  libwnck222.30.7-1
ii  libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxrandr2   2:1.4.0-1
ii  libxxf86vm1  1:1.1.2-1
ii  mono-runtime 2.10.8.1-6

Versions of packages banshee recommends:
ii  avahi-daemon   0.6.31-1
ii  brasero3.4.1-4
ii  media-player-info  17-1

Versions of packages banshee suggests:
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