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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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At Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:37:14 +0200,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Le mer 28 jui 2004 ŕ 19:32:43 +0200, Takashi Iwai a tapoté sur son clavier :
> > ALSA doesn't unmute automatically, so I'm afraid that we'll need a
> > code for that, too.
> 
> Well, that's not necessarily a need: provided that the *mix program you
> uses does unmute, there's no trouble: I tested aumix, which does fine,
> and alsamixer, which indeed doesn't unmute, but has a key for this, and
> it fact, in might be useful to change volume level while muted, and then
> suddenly unmute.

Then I feel it's somehow incosnsitent to mute at the lowest level but
not unmute after that.
For me it's ok to do muting/unmuting automatically per volume level.
It's just a question of user-friendliness.


Takashi