Version: 2.3.0 (using KDE 4.4.2) OS: Linux Installed from: Ubuntu Packages If I start Amarok and I start playing a song, the first two seconds of this first played song has louder volume than the rest of the song/than other songs. If I restart the song, the whole song has the (correct) equal volume. This problem does not appear in other audio players (Exaile, foobar (wine)). I'm running Ubuntu Lucid 64-bit. I have pulseaudio installed.
I also heard that too with the Xine engine. Maybe this is ReplayGain related? Does it work as expected when ReplayGain is off?
If I turn off ReplayGain, no differences in volume appear after two seconds. (In other words, the behavior is back to normal.)
I confirm this behavior
Seems replay gain volume change is to slow at startup.
I couldn't reproduce that in 2.4-GIT, so the bug seems to be fixed now. I tested the issue several times with the three possible settings of "Replay Gain" and couldn't hear any difference.
Closing then, thanks for testing. Please all, try Amarok 2.4 beta, released 2 days ago.
Exact same thing happens for me in Amarok 2.5 using the vlc-0.5 backend. Should I open a new bug?
Yes, please, as this is not necessarily the same problem. Please test with the gstreamer backend as well to exclude the backend as a problem. If you can't reproduce this with the gstreamer backend then you should file the bug against the Phonon-backend-vlc, not against Amarok.
Still happens in 2.8.0 Probably only on slow systems that are under load. This can be very annoying with significant differences in loudness. Volume adjustment needs to be completed before decoding starts. It seems Amarok needs a check to avoid this race condition.
Please open a new report, as the code is too far away from 2.5 Also please specify if this this also happen with ReplayGain set by track or by album or both, and of course the phonon backend and version you use.
Might be dupe of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299461
Well spotted, indeed, please continue there with the needed information.