shell-things/etc/pipewire/media-session.d

2021-06-14: These files shouldn’t even exist, the solution below is wrong, marking the headset as “Pro-audio” in pavucontrol Settings tab is enough to fix it.

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The old pulseaudio fix for less than 20 % volume being unhearable is editing alsa-monitor.conf and uncommenting api.alsa.ignore-dB = true

2021-049 11:44:40 EET <@wtay> Mikaela, you can set api.alsa.ignore-dB = true in /etc/pipewire/media-session.d/alsa-monitor.conf
2021-049 11:45:31 EET <@wtay> Mikaela, or alternatively: api.alsa.soft-mixer = true in alsa-monitor.conf

from #pipewire on freenode which has public logging according to the title.

The api.alsa.soft-mixer = true may be nicer as the volume is a lot less, 77 % is well audible on USB headset and even 100 % isn’t too loud. External speakers with subwoofer again work as usual.

2021-06-14: the above solution is wrong and outdated, the files mentioned don’t exist by default anymore, they need to be copied and edited separately

See also:

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1220
  • marked as duplicate of: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/207