Every time a song is changed by pressing prev/next or double clicking on a song the volume of rhythmbox and the system is decreased. After about 3-4 changes like that the volume is muted and has to be fixed from within rhythmbox or next time it's muted again. Also the volume slider in rhythmbox doesn't correspond to the system's volume i.e. 16% in rhythmbox is 83% in the pulseaudio volume meter. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Play a song 2.Press next song button 3.Watch the volume decrease Actual Results: Volume decreases Expected Results: Volume should stay the same Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8400_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:00:20 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -msse4.1" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/source/ ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US ca en_CA bg" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonjour branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups dbus dri dvb dvd dvdr encode exif faac faad ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gnome gnome-keyring gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipod ipv6 irda isdnlog java java6 jpeg lame laptop libnotify mad midi mmap mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl png policykit pppd pulseaudio python readline reflection samba session spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis wifi x264 xcomposite xinerama xorg xulrunner xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US ca en_CA bg" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa radeon radeonhd fglrx" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Please report this upstream and paste the url here as this is most likely related to what's in the changelog about better support for flat volumes.
Had the same error (rhythmbox-0.12.3). It's gone for now. Maybe the update to libcanberra-0.14 helped? I've also restarted pulseaudio.
I can confirm that it has stopped reducing the volume after each song change for now.
Spoke too soon. I had downgraded to a previous version. I updated back again and it still lowers the volume.
I filed a bug upstream. Here's the URL: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588409
<snap> Comment #3 from Jonathan Matthew (rhythmbox developer, points: 24) 2009-07-16 11:47 UTC [reply] There have been a few changes in gst-plugins-base since 0.10.23 that appear to be related. If upgrading to 0.10.24 (when available) doesn't fix this, I'll take another look at it, but again, rhythmbox doesn't do anything with the volume on track changes, so it's hard to see what might need to be fixed there. </snap>
mgerdjev@yahoo.com [reporter] 2009-08-19 06:59:44 UTC Upgrading to gst-plugins-base 0.10.24 fixed the problem with the volume changing. Closing then. Thanks for reporting.
