Hi. I am happy user of pulseaudio except one thing. When I am running mplayer it changes sound level to max, and I need to change it every time. It a bit annoying when running mplayer *mp3 because I need to change it on every song. I dont use pavucontrol and padevchooser, because of GTK (my religion doesn't accept it). ~ $ cat .asoundrc pcm.pulse { type pulse } ctl.pulse { type pulse } pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } pcm.phononpulse { type plug slave.pcm { type pulse } hint { show on description "PulseAudio" } } -- Alexander Tanyukevich atanyukevich at gmail.com