[Bug 41871] Re: xmms' volume slider should not mess with PCM but with master

[Raoul Verveer]

I found out that in MPlayer the mixer can also be configured to use OSS
or ALSA, assign a mixer channer or enable a sofware mixer wich doens't
affect any channel.

Unfortunately I am not in the position to make any choices about what's important in Ubuntu ;-)
But you have a point about the usabilty and default configurations of the multimedia packages. It shouldn't be that hard to configure xmms, Totem and MPlayer all to use a software mixer, or perhaps the master channel.

Perhaps some people at Ubuntu can shine a light on this?

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xmms' volume slider should not mess with PCM but with master 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/41871