Different volume level between i3pystatus and pactl about i3pystatus HOT 3 CLOSED

Here is a table showing the shift between 2 volumes level, if it can help:

To go from 99 to 100% I need to increase the volume once more. Not sure what happens there :S. I use the following command to increase the volume: pactl set-sink-volume $sink +5%

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These are very likely rounding errors, since the calculation of the percentage value adheres to pulseaudios own implementation ( volume / PA_VOLUME_NORM yields values in 0..1 for 0..100 %, times 100 = 0..100 %).

By the way, I'd recommend using decibels for displaying and changing volume as it's much more natural and fitting for audio, since increasing volume by 5 % increases perceived volume by differing amounts (from very much at low levels to barely noticeable at high levels), while increasing by a fixed number of decibels leads to nearly the same change in perceived volume, regardless of level.

At 100 % the display is 0 dB, while at 0 % the display is -∞ dB.

A script demonstrating pulseaudio volume control can be found here: https://github.com/enkore/dot-scripts/blob/master/pavol

I use it like this with i3:

bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pavol mute
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pavol plus
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pavol minus

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Thanks for the suggestion, I switch to db, my OCD is not kicking anymore due to some "none multiple of 5" values hehe.

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