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I hope somebody has a solution for a problem that I have and can't find anything online.

I have a simple Pipewire setup. When plugging a regular 3.5mm headphone (/w a mic) it always ends up in maximum capture settings, so if I forget to open `alsamixer` and decrease the mic capture and boost levels to a reasonable level, people behind the other end of Zoom calls suffer.

If I unplug it and plug again, it resets to 100% again. How to fix this?

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Are you using WirePlumber or pipewire-media-session? WirePlumber seems to remember my volume settings, but that also might be a DE thing possibly.

I use WirePlumber (the systemd user service is started), and no DE (only a WM).

Wireplumber stores volume settings in ~/.local/state/wireplumber/. It is not a DE thing. I use i3. I have a separate mic and it remembers the volume.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pipewire/ is fairly active for such questions. I think sometimes even pipewire devs people are on there.

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