I have the issue that when I change the volume of Amarok in itself has no effect, but when I do it in a mixer like KMix or veromix it has a effect.
Additional Amarok sometimes is silenced when the track changes.
I tried to get an message via --debug option, but I go nothing so far.
DE: KDE 4.11
Amarok ver: 2.8
everything is up to date except sip python-sip and python-pyqt

Hm, that totally depends on your hardware configuration, so you should check whether you can change the master channel in KMix.

Well, no, it doesn't depend on any hardware configuration. Amarok's internal volume is calculated in software by either libVLC or GStreamer.

If you are using Pulseaudio, then it could be interfering - is it in use on your system?
Even if it was interfering though, the volume level should still change.

bcooksley wrote:If you are using Pulseaudio, then it could be interfering - is it in use on your system?
Even if it was interfering though, the volume level should still change.

Yes I use Pulseaudio (4.0).

Which Phonon backend are you using? If it is VLC, please make sure the appropriate Pulseaudio plugin for VLC is installed.

bcooksley wrote:Which Phonon backend are you using? If it is VLC, please make sure the appropriate Pulseaudio plugin for VLC is installed.

Yes I use the VLC backend, the plugin is installed (or else I had no sound, there's no special package for this in Arch).

I used phonon-git and phonon-vlc-git I rebuilded both and now everything works fine. I think it was because of the new KDE SC release.