Roon louder than other audio sources

[mjw (See you in the major leagues, Jack.)]

@Benjamin_Frey

My guess is that this is something to do with running the client in Bottles/wine.

No, this is completely isolated from the host OS.

@Benjamin_Frey

Also, I’m on Arch so Ubuntu directions don’t apply.

No, it still applies since the desktop is simply presenting audio settings (I should have said GNOME, but any DE will have audio settings.)

If you use the audio interface as the default audio output, any app on the machine can take exclusive control of the device. To avoid this use the default audio output, which uses the OS mixer.

It may be helpful to understand your use case, and how you are using the audio interface.

[Benjamin_Frey]

I think you’re saying that in this menu (I’m using KDE) I should set it to “Default”?

My use case is “I want to play music from my NAS and from Tidal on my desktop computer”.

[mjw (See you in the major leagues, Jack.)]

This is the output device for the PC, not the audio source, and not the device Roon will use (the Solo.)

[Benjamin_Frey]

Then can you please help me find what you’re referring to?

[mjw (See you in the major leagues, Jack.)]

Yes, use the default device on the PC, and Roon will have exclusive access to the Solo without the can’t acquire the audio device message.

[Benjamin_Frey]

So as long as I don’t try to start music in Roon too quickly after listening to another source (e.g. YouTube), then Roon is happy. However, I’m still experiencing an issue in the other direction: once Roon has grabbed the audio output device, it will not let it go until I reboot my computer.

[Carl]

Try a long press / click on Roon’s play/pause button.

IIRC this will force Roon to drop the audio connection.

[Benjamin_Frey]

Well, I now can’t even launch the client. I get a Windows-styled popup saying “Can not find a suitable tmpPixelFormat.”