Budgie audio issue survey

Solarmass

Recently I had a problem with low volume in music players on Budgie.
I fixed it by removing wireplumber state folder and restarting pipewire, wireplumber and pipewire-pulse.

Question to Budgie users, what do you have in .local/state/wireplumber/stream-propertie file at the line that starts with "Output/Audio:media.role:Music=" ?

You should see something like this:

Output/Audio:media.role:Music={"mute":false, "channelVolumes":[1.000000, 1.000000], "volume":1.000000, "channelMap":["UNK", "UNK"]}

brent

Solarmass can confirm..
often (not always) when I open of Budgie Volume Settings the slider is set to 0 (off). For years I've kept it 110%.
Sometimes defaults very low (20%-ish?).
This is def. new behavior. I have not taken steps to remedy yet, I just pull the slider on down.
This is more a Wayland Budgie things than X11 for me.
Am at work so can run no tests. Just confirming the audio thing.

johano

Solarmass

Output/Audio:media.role:Music={"channelVolumes":[0.373226, 0.373226], "volume":1.000000, "mute":false, "channelMap":["FL", "FR"]}

penny-farthing

Solarmass

Output/Audio:media.role:Music={"mute":false, "volume":1.000000, "channelMap":["FL", "FR"], "channelVolumes":[1.000000, 1.000000]}

Solarmass

I don't use over-amplification (it's disabled) and system volume level is about 50% most of the time. The issue was on Solus Budgie X11. Can't confirm it on Budgie Wayland.

The problem I had is that at my usual listening volume set in the system and in the music player app, music was playing at very low volume.

It's could be related to pipewire/wireplumber config on Budgie..

brent

Solarmass The problem I had is that at my usual listening volume set in the system and in the music player app, music was playing at very law volume

yep me too sometimes in X11 not every time

Solarmass

johano looks good, thanks!

brent

Output/Audio:media.role:Music={"volume":1.000000, "channelMap":["FL", "FR"], "mute":false, "channelVolumes":[1.000000, 1.000000]}

Solarmass

OK, thanks for responses! Looks like problem was on my side.

nolan

on my system it is Output/Audio:media.role:Music={"channelVolumes":[0.953809, 0.953809], "channelMap":["FL", "FR"], "volume":1.000000, "mute":false

Solarmass

nolan good numbers! 👍️

elfprince

Here is mine on Solus Budgie:
Output/Audio:media.role:Music={"channelVolumes":[0.021432, 0.021432], "channelMap":["FL", "FR"], "mute":false, "volume":1.000000}

Solarmass

elfprince impressive numbers! 😄

elfprince

Solarmass I don't understand any of them, haha!

Patrice

Here is what I have :

Output/Audio:media.role:Music={"channelMap":["FL", "FR"], "channelVolumes":[1.000000, 1.000000], "volume":1.000000, "mute":false}

Solarmass

Patrice best numbers so far! 🏆️

Ok, we have enough data! I am closing survey. Budgie users are the best! ☺️

brent

what's the difference between
"channelVolumes":[1.000000, 1.000000]
and
{"channelVolumes":[0.021432, 0.021432], ?
(and why do they change reporting sequence in the output)?

that has stood out to me since 3 days ago but just getting around to asking. inquiring minds etc

Solarmass

brent you're 1st who asked 😄

So you can change volume per applications. On Budgie you can do it in Raven or in Sound settings.
When you do that you would see corresponding volume in "channelVolumes"

brent

Solarmass overamplication @ 105 0r 110 or something is my default (sound settings). maybe it got changed back during that mysterious suddenly-switch-to-low thing which started this thread 🤷 . Between X11 and Wayland Budgies I am paying less attention 🙂

Axios

brent I think default is 1.0 and up to 10.0
"channelVolumes":[1.000000, 1.000000]

brent

Axios I think default is 1.0 and up to 10.0

ah so the over-amplification would not necessarily register in log? hadn't thought of that thank you