Set System Wide Volume to Unamplified, or "XBMC is raising my volume"

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#1

Hi all,

Please excuse me if any of this is in the wrong place or anything like that.

I have my PC hooked up to my lovely Sherwood HiFi Amp, as such I run the volume level at Unamplified, however I believe that XBMC is raising my volume level to 100% which in turn causes noise and crackling to come through my speakers. My question is - perhaps a two-parter - can I set the system wide volume level to permanently set to Unamplified, or is there a way I stop XBMC raising my volume level.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, hope you’re all having good weekends :slight_smile:

Yours,

Tom

#2

DawthLasu Hi all,

Please excuse me if any of this is in the wrong place or anything like that.

I have my PC hooked up to my lovely Sherwood HiFi Amp, as such I run the volume level at Unamplified, however I believe that XBMC is raising my volume level to 100% which in turn causes noise and crackling to come through my speakers. My question is - perhaps a two-parter - can I set the system wide volume level to permanently set to Unamplified, or is there a way I stop XBMC raising my volume level.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, hope you’re all having good weekends :slight_smile:

Yours,

Tom

Hello Tom. I am no expert on XBMC, but there is a setting for audio called Boost Audio on Downmix, perhaps you need to turn that setting off. Also, while I understand the volume setting can be too high to go to a Receiver, the term Unamplified does not make sense to me as a control option. Can you explain what you mean better? Can we assume that when you readjust the audio down in XBMC, then it works OK, just starts up too loud? XBMC has its own forum (XBMC Community Forum), you could ask for help there as well. I also use an external Receiver with my computer, but I am using an Optical connection. I have not had the issue you describe with XBMC, but this application is like another desktop, like KDE or GNOME even though you can run it from within either. To see what I mean, log out of openSUSE. At the login menu, notice the session option on the bottom left. If you select this, you will notice you can select XBMC and log directly into it. Make sure to keep note of the default desktop session name you use before you leave it. You can reverse the process by doing the very same thing when you are at the login screen again. Using the session option, you can switch back to the Plasma KDE or GNOME desktop.

Thank You,

#3

Hi Daniel,

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to me. I have indeed turned off the Boost Audio on Downmix option. By Unamplified I mean that in the Desktop (in this case Gnome 3) I set my volume to Unamplified, to me this makes perfect sense as I have a HiFi Amp to adjust the volume for me. It is most definitely XBMC adjusting the volume level. I will indeed have a look at their own forums, I thought try my own back yard first :slight_smile:

Oh, and thanks for the tip about being able to use XBMC as a session, I didn’t know this was possible, it’s been a LOOONG time since I used this great piece of software, since it was on the orginal Xbox in fact, but my new Full HD monitor requires some more media savvy methinks :slight_smile:

Thanks for the help, I’ll definitely have a look in the direction you’ve pointed me.

Yours,

Tom