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Pulseaudio: How to set individual sink volume for left, right or srround channel on commandline

I have a 5.1 surround sound card and want to set individual volume for the different channel: Sink #1 State: RUNNING Name: alsa_output.usb-0d8c_USB_Sound_Device-00.analog-surround-51 ...
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pulseaudio: very sensitive volume (no sound when volume is less than 97%) for USB speaker

When using a USB speaker (this one) in Ubuntu 20.04, I'm observing something weird: when volume is at 100%, sound is audible (and reasonably loud). However when I gradually decrease the volume (via ...
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How to stop Zoom from randomly muting itself?

I'm on Arch right now, but I had the same problem (although slightly less often) on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Basically, whenever I enter or leave a breakout room in Zoom, and sometimes randomly while I'm ...
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PulseAudio on Debian 9: How to adjust default sound volume level?

Every time I boot up my Debian machine the sound volume level is at 100 % (what is way too loud). I am using PulseAudio instead of Alsa. How can I adjust the default sound volume level to an ...
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What are several different and alternative methods to backup the audio levels in linux?

The audio recording levels can be saved for Ubuntu / Debian users using a command from the package alsa-mixer, alsactl --file ~/filename store However I am looking for alternative ways to save and ...
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Fedora 24 KDE - no persistent volume settings per application

I use Fedora 24 KDE, fully updated, with "Audio Volume - System Settings Module". I want to be able to change the volume of programs (not individual streams) persistenly (surviving program or OS ...
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How to stop gnome from muting my music?

I use ArchLinux, and I recently installed Spotify which is working fine, except for one thing: Every time any program triggers a system sound, the player volume is automatically muted in the mixer. ...
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Changing system volume also changes Spotify volume (Arch Linux)

This is something that has been bugging me for awhile and I haven't been able to find a fix yet. Whenever I change the system volume using the hardware volume keys on my laptop, it also changes the ...
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Volume too quiet at maximum

I recently replaced my broken Sennheiser PC350 to a Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 Ohm headphones and I've encountered a really annoying issue. Everything is too low. I can listen to it, but it's almost as ...
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Debian: pulseaudio sink volumes syncing?

Running Debian jessie with pulseaudio, sometimes I would use pavucontrol to adjust volumes of different applications at varying levels. Then when I would forget about it and adjust the volume using ...
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Lock all devices when adjusting pulseaudio volume in kmix

My problem is that kmix adjusts the volumes of not all devices locked together. Adjusting built-in analog stereo also adjusts application's equalized stream and ALSA plugin. But webcam and event ...
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Allow audio from only one application

I'd like to only allow audio from a certain application. That is, I'd like to have audio turned off by default for new programs. I'm aware that in PulseAudio one can mute programs, but the problem ...
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