Ubuntu
pipewire package

Audio plays deafeningly loud

Bug #1998242 reported by NecLimDul
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Bug Description

Randomly when using a USB audio device my headphones will start screeching at a deafeningly loud volume.

This seems to be a documented bug in pipewire with a fix committed last week.
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2832

I'd say this is pretty major. The volume is not controllable and using headphones it was painfully loud causing my ears to ring for several minutes.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-08 (1056 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
Package: pipewire 0.3.58-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-23.24-generic 5.19.7
Tags: third-party-packages kinetic
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-23-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2022-11-29 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker libvirt lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo vboxusers wireshark
_MarkForUpload: True

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

I suspect you've linked to the wrong bug. Upstream issue 2832 is about "noise" not "volume". And that problem started in 0.3.60 which does not formally exist in Ubuntu yet.

So let's start again. Please run the following command to collect information about the system:

  apport-collect 1998242

Changed in pipewire (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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NecLimDul (neclimdul) wrote :

I could be wrong about the issue but I assumed it to be the cause because this was a closer report that was marked as duplicate.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/2619

Also this comment on the issue seems to explain why it was loud.
"Doesn't seem to matter if your Deadbeef software volume is lowered you get the system volume, which in my case was at full."

I didn't actually have it at full but i'm always struggling with the volume on the device so it sounds about right.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Please remember to run:

  apport-collect 1998242

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NecLimDul (neclimdul) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected kinetic third-party-packages
description: updated
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NecLimDul (neclimdul) wrote : ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt

apport information

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in pipewire (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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