{"id":463,"date":"2012-07-27T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T13:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-07-27T14:38:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T13:38:28","slug":"fixing-google-chrome-alsa-plugin-volume-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Google Chrome Alsa plugin volume issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re on Linux, this may have happened to you: Google Chrome’s flash plugin all of a sudden sets the audio playback volume to 100% whenever you play a youtube video which may end up in serious sound distortion for all other apps on your system, including google chrome.<\/p>\n

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Here’s how to fix it:<\/p>\n

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– make sure you have the “pavucontrol” application install (pulse audio volume control panel)<\/p>\n

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– with a youtube or other flash video running, fire up pavucontrol, it should look something like this:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/1983539\/pavucontrol.png<\/a><\/p>\n

Simply drag the “chrome alsa” volume slider to 30% or so and you should be all set to enjoy non-distorted sound in both chrome and Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 in my case) again.<\/p>\n

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If you’re on Linux, this may have happened to you: Google Chrome’s flash plugin all of a sudden sets the audio playback volume to 100% whenever you play a youtube video which may end up in serious sound distortion for all other apps on your system, including google chrome.   Here’s how to fix it: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoover.gplrank.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}