On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 18:42 -0700, Justin Chudgar wrote: > From a simplistic perspective, it seems that a filter should have no influence > on the stream it processes beyond its explicit function. Which implies that it > should not have any ability to alter overall volume (including setting it to > 0). Is it possible to strip all references to volume and mute from filter > modules? No, that's not currently possible. The closest alternative is to use "volume sharing", which couples the filter sink volume and the master sink volume together: changing one changes also the other. -- Tanu