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volume fluctuating on its own

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Hi All,

I have seen this issue being discussed but cannot understand where to start from.

I have volume fluctuating on its own when on "Speakers Built-in Audio". It is very annoying, especially when I am at work because volume changes both up becoming noisy and down becoming inaudible.

It happens especially with the Spotify client. It seems to me that it happens also with Firefox but perhaps with a lower excursion.

Any hints on where to start from?

Thank you!

Here is some information on my system:

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System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-52-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.4.12 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: Mutter vt: 7
    dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP EliteBook 1040 G4 v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8417 v: KBC Version 62.47 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: HP v: P96 Ver. 01.15 date: 01/25/2018
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 62.2 Wh (100.0%) condition: 62.2/62.2 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 13.0 min: 11.6 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: Full
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i7-7600U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    smt: enabled arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check rev: 9 cache: L1: 128 KiB
    L2: 512 KiB L3: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 853 high: 881 min/max: 400/3900 cores: 1: 841 2: 881
    3: 880 4: 810 bogomips: 23199
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
    v: kernel ports: active: HDMI-A-1 off: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-2
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5916 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Chicony HP HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-7:4
    chip-ID: 04f2:b5e7 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.0x11.3")
    s-diag: 583mm (23")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-1 mapped: HDMI-A-1 model: Idek Iiyama PL2280H
    serial: <filter> res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 102
    size: 477x268mm (18.8x10.6") diag: 547mm (21.5") modes: max: 1920x1080
    min: 720x400
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-52-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 6c:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp108s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: gpd0 state: down mac: N/A
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter>
    bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2 sub-v: 100 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 100
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 79.37 GiB (16.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW512HMJP-000H1
    size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: CXY73H1Q temp: 31.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 465.29 GiB used: 78.97 GiB (17.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
    mapped: vgmint-root
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.61 GiB used: 399.2 MiB (24.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 980 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/dm-2 mapped: vgmint-swap_1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C pch: 36.5 C mobo: 0.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: 3179 note: see --pkg apt: 3164 flatpak: 15
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vanessa main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/spotify.list
    1: deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free
Info:
  Processes: 275 Uptime: 5h 8m wakeups: 5 Memory: 15.51 GiB
  used: 6.78 GiB (43.7%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13
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Re: volume fluctuating on its own

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Just looking at the output above: is it normal to have three Sound Servers running at the same time?
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Re: volume fluctuating on its own

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tiKol wrote: ⤴Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:11 am Just looking at the output above: is it normal to have three Sound Servers running at the same time?
Yes. That is normal for an LM21 version install. They all have different purposes.
tiKol wrote: ⤴Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:01 amIt happens especially with the Spotify client. It seems to me that it happens also with Firefox but perhaps with a lower excursion.
I suggest checking what settings are available for the Spotify client. It's possible this might be some type of issue related to network latency.
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Re: volume fluctuating on its own

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It's possible this might be some type of issue related to network latency.
Ah!

Indeed there is a "Streaming Quality" setting at "High". Indeed I have the impression that it happens only at work....

I will put it to "Automatic" and see what happens on Monday at work.

How come network latency affects volume !? :shock:
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tiKol wrote: ⤴Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:06 pmHow come network latency affects volume !? :shock:
I do not use Spotify so I just did a search on "why does spotify volume fluctuate" and it came up with a lot of hits.

Here is a Spotify thread Volume changes up and down during all solng which started in 2012 and was finally locked in 2019. :shock: Apparently, all kinds of devices receiving Spotify can have this issue. Best I can tell, it seems to be related to audio settings on the receiving device and how they are interpreting what comes from Spotify? See if something in that topic gives you ideas because, as I said, I do not have the app.
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