Amarok starts with sound level 0%

[Tuomas Nurmi]

Hi,
thank you for the comments and information. I managed to reproduce this (or at least
one case where this happens):
With Phonon VLC backend, if a playing track is stopped,
master volume is set to 0. Playback will continue with correct volume if a next track is
played. However, if Amarok is shut down with playback stopped, the 0 gets written as
the master volume setting and will be the initial volume on next startup.

A potential fix is available at https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/amarok/-/merge_requests/101
I'll merge it before 3.0.1, but it'd of course be awesome if someone else could build Amarok with
those changes applied and confirm that the issue is fixed, too.

Cheers
Tuomas

Tuomas Nurmi kirjoitti sunnuntaina 26. toukokuuta 2024 20.33.43 EEST:
> Okay, thank you, interesting to hear.
> Sure, feel free to send the debug outputs directly to me. I'll filter them for relevant
> content and document on the bug report if there's some useful extra information there.
> 
> TUomas
> 
> Martin Byttebier kirjoitti lauantaina 25. toukokuuta 2024 18.00.41 EEST:
> > Op Sat, 25 May 2024 09:43:02 +0300
> > Tuomas Nurmi <tuomas at norsumanageri.org> schreef:
> > 
> > > Hi Martin!
> > >
> > > I haven't myself encountered this issue (at least yet), but it sounds
> > > similar to the one reported at
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442319
> > 
> > It looks indeed similar as problem in the bugreport.
> > 
> > >
> > > It's probably somehow related to Phonon-VLC backend, but there's
> > > still very limited information on how to reproduce available. I've
> > > been planning to have a look at various volume related issues with
> > > phonon-vlc a bit later. Could you try starting amarok with `amarok
> > > --debug-audio` and `amarok --debug` and posting the output on the
> > > related bug report? That might provide useful background information
> > > for me or anyone else inspecting the issue.
> > 
> > I ran 'amarok --debug-audio' and Amarok started up with soundlevel=0.
> > I altered the soundlevel to 100% manualy and aborted Amarok.
> > 
> > Then I used 'amarok --debug'  and strange enough Amarok started up with
> > soundlevel=100%.
> > Since then Amarok starts up with soundlevel=100%.
> > 
> > I've rebooted the pc several times and so far always soundlevel=100%"
> > 
> > Correction: Again soundlevel=0%" afer a new restart.
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with making bug reports.
> > May I send you the result of amarok --debug-audio and amarok
> > --debug directly to you?
> > 
> > amarok --debug contains 48 952 lines
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Martin
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Tuomas
> > >
> > > Martin Byttebier kirjoitti perjantaina 24. toukokuuta 2024 22.54.18
> > > EEST:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Since quite some time Amarok starts up with sound level set to 0%.
> > > > This started a few months ago with the older version and now with
> > > > v3 it still happens.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a somewhere a (hidding)setting with which I can set the
> > > > sound level to 100%?
> > > >
> > > > I know I can alter the level manualy but it would be handly if the
> > > > level is set 100% when Amarok is fired up like it used to be.
> > > >
> > > > Kernel: 6.9.1-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64
> > > > Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.4 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240521
> > > > Graphics Platform: X11
> > > >
> > > >    Amarok-version: 3.0.0
> > > >    KDE Frameworks-version: 5.116.0
> > > >    Qt-version: 5.15.13
> > > >    Phonon-version: 4.12.0
> > > >    Phonon-backend: Phonon VLC (0.12.0, http://www.videolan.org)
> > > >    PulseAudio: No
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Martin Byttebier <martinbyttebier at gmx.com>
> > 
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