Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

[Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na>]

On 25 October 2006 15:00, Dale wrote:

> I did figure out what I did earlier.  Tell me if you think I am doing
> wrong here.  When I insert a CD, the window pops up on what to do.  I
> select 'extract and encode'.  Then it saves it to ~/wav when I tell it
> to 'rip' them.  I then move it to my music directory ~/music.  After
> that, Amarok picks it right up and they play fine.
>
> The only thing that I do not like is this.  I have to use the PCM slider
> to control my music volume which also controls the volume of the sound
> of notifications in KDE too.  So when I turn up the music volume it
> seems to turn up everything else too.  Any way around this?

Whether amaroK (or any other application) plays a sound file (your music) or 
the system plays a sound file (system notifications) doesn't matter, it *is* 
the same source. So the same volume settings apply. No way around that.

You can, though, control amaroK's volume to a certain extent in amaroK itself. 
Try to put amaroK's internal control to 100% and drop PCM a bit lower. It 
might help though I doubt it will help much. (Don't know for sure because I 
don't use system notifications.)

Uwe 

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