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Also spoken confidently like someone that never tried to play sound in two applications at once. This has worked well in ALSA for years now. Now, ALSA won't l
by LukeShu 9y ago
Also spoken confidently like someone that never tried to play sound in two applications at once.
This has worked well in ALSA for years now. Now, ALSA won't let you set the volume of each application separately, but most applications have their own volume control for that anyway.
And you'll never have to deal with the application's volume Pulse's volume for that source disagreeing, and scratching your head as to why even though you set the volume to max, it isn't getting very loud. To be fair, maybe this has been entirely solved; the last time I used Pulse was ~5 years ago[0], so I might be a bit out of date. But not more out-of-date than the claim that ALSA can't play sound in two applications at once!
[0]: I don't have anything against Pulse, I just don't see the point in installing it. What does adding it to my stack get me?
- digi_owl 9y agoAnother "lovely" thing about PA is that will allow the loudest of the "apps" (groan) to ramp up the master control (do not recall the "feature" name right now). Do wonder how much future hearing loss it has created by sudden spikes in volume...
- LukeShu 9y agoOh! When all of the GUIs say sound is at max, but it's either really quiet or silent, and it turns out that it's because even though the PA volume is up, somehow ALSA (which PA ultimately uses on the backend) got muted. But this is a PA box, so you have no GUI tools to set the ALSA volume!
- Symen 9y agoYou are talking about "flat-volumes", I also recommend disabling it. Even forgetting the issue you mentionned, it just makes volumes harder to handle and reason about. I wonder if they would have ever implemented this "feature" if it wasn't the default (and only) behavior on Windows...