[nas] [PATCH] consistent gain setting in voxware server

[Paul Fox]

erik wrote:
 > in the sound driver. Paul suggested a generic solution to this (and any
 > similar) problem should be implemented (if I understand him properly).

yes, but i was being very pie-in-the-sky.  don't take my wishes too
seriously. :-)  i spoke because there's a similar (non-NAS related)
problem on laptops, where the channel of the mixer labelled "master"
may not be the master volume at all -- sometimes it's some other channel,
and you have to know that when playing with your mixer programs.
(i can't remember a specific example right now.) so it seems that
there should be more configurability at several levels.

(another place i'd like configurability:  the computer that drives my
stereo has sound hardware that distorts if the master volume is
set to above 80 or so.  i'd love to be able to tell either the alsa
driver or the nas server that volume control requests should all be
scaled by 80%, so that '100' at the NAS client translates into 80 at
the sound hardware.  and now that i've described the problem in
such simple terms, maybe i'll get around to implementing it.  :-)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 77.4 degrees)