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Commands tagged volume

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pacmd set-sink-volume 0 0x10000
2012-07-17 15:02:56
User: andycandet
Tags: Linux pulseaudio volume
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PulseAudio: set the volume via command line

This command sets the volume for the main PulseAudio "sink" (usually the ALSA output interface) to the maximum, 100% (the 0x10000 in the command). To set it to an arbitrary volume, replace 10000 with the volume you want times 100 (so 75% becomes 7500).

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mplayer -af volnorm=2:0.75 dvd://
2011-07-24 07:26:51
User: h3xx
Tags: mplayer volume
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Normalize volume output in MPlayer

Works really well for playing DVDs, which have the volume turned way down for some reason. The `2' method is better IMHO because it will adjust to changing loud/soft parts.

If you want to add it to your ~/.mplayer/config:

# format: volnorm[=method:target]

# method:

# 1: use single sample (default)

# 2: multiple samples

# target:

# default is 0.25

af-add=volnorm=2:0.75

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pvscan | awk '/name_of_vg/ {print $2}' | sed 's/[-|/|]/ /g' | cut -d " " -f7
2010-06-22 16:34:42
User: slashdot
Functions: awk cut sed
Tags: management volume lvm multipath pvscan
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Quickly check a device in a LVM volume group against multipath

This is an easy way to quickly get a status for a device in multipath on SLES systems, as long as the server is configured based on Novell's standards, where multipathed disks are referred to by /dev/disk/by-... tree. Make sure to replace name_of_vg with your Volume Group name.

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find . -type f -name '*.mp3' -execdir mp3gain -a '{}' +
2010-03-21 22:23:44
User: Mikelifeguard
Functions: find
Tags: bash find music mp3 volume
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Normalize volume in your mp3 library

This normalizes volume in your mp3 library, but uses mp3gain's "album" mode. This applies a gain change to all files from each directory (which are presumed to be from the same album) - so their volume relative to one another is changed, while the average album volume is normalized. This is done because if one track from an album is quieter or louder than the others, it was probably meant to be that way.

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find . -type d -exec sh -c "normalize-audio -b \"{}\"/*.mp3" \;
2009-12-08 03:13:13
User: Mikelifeguard
Functions: find sh
Tags: bash find music mp3 volume
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Normalize volume in your mp3 library

Execute this in the root of your music library and this recurses through the directories and normalizes each folder containing mp3s as a batch. This assumes those folders hold an album each. The command "normalize-audio" may go by "normalize" on some systems.

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amixer -c 0 set Master 1+ unmute
2009-08-15 13:00:16
User: Attentah
Functions: amixer set
Tags: sound amixer volume
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amixer : raise volume and unmute if necessary

Volume up und unmute (ignored if Master is not muted).

Replace "+" by "-" for volume down and unmute if necessary.

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