06-23-2020, 03:28 PM
I'm able to repro. It appears that MPD software volume is much louder at the same MPD volume level as compared to Hardware volume. This is w/o EQ enabled and on a couple of different DAC's.
Alsamixer still shows 0dB gain at 100% volume which suggests there is no additional gain being added by ALSA. This in turn would suggest something possibly going on with MPD and the way it calculates/curves software volume ??
In my tests, reducing Max ALSA volume to 80 in Audio Config brought the level more or less in line with Hardware volume.
I don't see anything in the MPD documentation or change logs that would indicate a specific change to software volume that might be causing this.
https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/user.ht...io-outputs
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicP...21.24/NEWS
Alsamixer still shows 0dB gain at 100% volume which suggests there is no additional gain being added by ALSA. This in turn would suggest something possibly going on with MPD and the way it calculates/curves software volume ??
In my tests, reducing Max ALSA volume to 80 in Audio Config brought the level more or less in line with Hardware volume.
I don't see anything in the MPD documentation or change logs that would indicate a specific change to software volume that might be causing this.
https://www.musicpd.org/doc/html/user.ht...io-outputs
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MusicP...21.24/NEWS