Bug#531882: rhythmbox: set the volume to 100% when starts to play

[drag sidious]

I have a similar problem with Rhythmbox 0.12.3.. except it's about the 
opposite. It makes the volume too low.


Not on the first time you play a song... it just lowers the volume 
slightly. Then each song it lowers it more. After about 2-3 songs the 
volume is inaudable at usually 0%.

I am using PulseAudio, btw. And the Rhythmbox volume setting affects 
both the application's setting AND the output on my audio card. 

When you use pavucontrol to look at the volume control you can go to 
the 'Output Devices' and see the controls for the audio device. When 
you go to the 'Playback' tab you can see rhythmbox. If you start off at 
reasonable levels you can click on a song in Rhythmbox and see the 
volume automatically go down a step for both the Rhythmbox volume in 
'Playback' and for 'Output Devices'. After a song or three the volume 
is essentually muted.

Then if you muck around with the volume control in Rhythmbox then the 
sound gets louder unexpectly or something like that.

So something is out of wack here. 

I don't know if it's a bug with PA or whatever or its a design decision 
that causes Rhythmbox to affect my output volume or whatever... but 
it's just wrong.

I kindly suggest that Rhythmbox application keeps it's sticky fingers 
off of my PA output volume. I don't know what the hell it's trying to 
do, but whatever it is it won't be able to do it right... ever. It's a 
wrong design to have a application affect the output volume like that. 

I have the output volume set at that volume for a reason. And that 
reason is completely external to anything to do with the application. 
It's impossible for Rhythmbox to ever make a correct decision... Unless 
Rhythmbox is going to somehow knows the combination of correct settings 
for PA + 'alsamixer -c0' + the volume knob on my speakers that = good 
sound with no clipping at the correct volume that is loud enough for me 
to enjoy, but not loud enough to wake my roomate directly above me at 2 
AM in the morning on a workday.

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Besides that Rhythmbox seems to be the best it has ever been. It's much 
more pleasent to use then ever before and the tag editing stuff works 
well. This volume thing makes it unusable current, unfortunately.