[solved] spring quiet with pulseaudio?

[cortezthekiller]

Hi, I am am having a problem with spring being significantly quieter when pulseaudio is running.

When I kill pulseaudio it is normal volume and quiet again when I start it. When I use spring-multithreaded it is normal volume regardless whether pulseaudio is going or not.

I'm using archlinux 64 with spring installed from the repo.

Does anyone know what my problem could be or is it likely a bug?

Cheers,
James

[dansan]

Alsa does not mix, so all apps are always at the same volume (alsa master output setting --> run "$ alsamixer").

Pulseaudio mixes, so apps can have different volumes. Did you check, that both the pulse master volume and the pulse application volume are at max?

For a proper comparison you have to set spring to max (alt-+), alsa to max ($ alsamixer), pulse master to max and pulse app-specific to max.

[burp]

I can recommend `pavucontrol` for this, it's in the pavucontrol package.

With archlinux pulseaudio 3 I had the problem that spring always made it crash on exit. With pulseaudio 4 this seems to be fixed now.

[cortezthekiller]

Thanks for the help guys, I normally use pauvcontrol to change app volumes, but that only works when the app is running. Spring, however, grabs the keyboard so I couldn't alt tab to use pauvcontrol. I ended up just deleting ~/.config/pulse/xxxxxxx-stream-volumes.tdb which reset all volumes when pulse restarted, now it works fine. I have no idea how I changed the volume in the first place.