Banshee does not register volume level correctly in the Sound preferences > 'Applications' tab

Bug #692887 reported by Vish
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Banshee
Confirmed
Medium
banshee (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Conor Curran

Bug Description

Binary package hint: banshee

Steps to reproduce :
1: Set a volume level in Banshee & Play a song
2: Check volume level in Sound Preferences > 'Applications' Tab.

Notice that the volume level is not the same in both the places. [Banshee and the Sound Preferences where banshee registers itself as playing]
And that the two volume levels can be changed independently of each other.

[attaching screenshot: notice that the volume in sound prefs is full while in banshee the volume level is low]

While notice the same behavior in Totem, the volume level is the same and if volume is changed either in Totem or in the Sound Prefs window, the volume changes accordingly in the Applications tab or the app.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: banshee 1.8.0-2ubuntu1~maverick2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.48~lp652934v201011301338-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 21 13:34:51 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100924)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee

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Vish (vish) wrote :
Changed in banshee (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Conor Curran (cjcurran) wrote :

thx Vish, just getting around to a complete audit of Banshee this week :)

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Alex Launi (alexlauni) wrote :

This is because Banshee (and I'm assuming Totem as well) use the GStreamer Volume property. It doesn't use pulse directly. This may really be a bug in GStreamer or PulseAudio.

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Conor Curran (cjcurran) wrote :
Changed in banshee (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Conor Curran (cjcurran)
Vish (vish)
Changed in banshee (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Conor Curran (cjcurran) wrote :

Yeah I checked Rhythmbox and it uses the same Gstreamer elements as Banshee for its volume control. Are you sure the volume on the GUI for Banshee controls the same element's volume to that which is used by Pulse in GVC, Pavucontrol. There are many places in the pipeline where you can control volume, I suspect Banshee is altering the wrong element on its GUI. Just a hunch...

Changed in banshee:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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