Bug#541538: pulseaudio: disable flat volumes

2018-01-31 Thread Patrick Dunford
I have the view the same, it should be so easy to resolve this problem in the config file, it must be so simple to implement In addition to the problems you mention, developers of third party applications have to publish this fix and respond to queries of why altering the volume level in

Bug#541538: pulseaudio: disable flat volumes

2018-01-31 Thread Boris Pek
control: severity 541538 grave justification: (physically) harms users Hi Roland, > I came here because I was just playing [1] on headphones, and Firefox > seemed to think that it would be a good idea to set the master volume to > 100%. My ears are still ringing. You are not the only one who

Bug#541538: pulseaudio: disable flat volumes

2018-01-31 Thread Roland Hieber
I came here because I was just playing [1] on headphones, and Firefox seemed to think that it would be a good idea to set the master volume to 100%. My ears are still ringing. At least now I know what to do. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AFSK_1200_baud.ogg The fix of changing

Bug#541538: pulseaudio: disable flat volumes

2016-02-03 Thread Thomas van der Berg
I've recently installed Debian Testing and have been disturbed by flat-volumes being on by default. It's completely unintuitive when raising my VLC volume suddenly raises the volume of other programs on my OS! The whole reason I'm raising a program's volume is because I want it to be louder than