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James Litewski
Asked: 2011-04-24 23:22:22 +0800 CST

How to - View sound percentage?

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Is there a way to make Ubuntu show me the current main volume level in the form of a percent? Like Windows 7 does when you change the sound level.
I'm just sorta a number freak, and I like to know what percentage my volume is at. Thanks :)

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3 Answers

  1. In a terminal you can use amixer to ask for the volume. For example my Master volume:

    user@srv % amixer get Master
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
  Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
  Playback channels: Mono
  Limits: Playback 0 - 31
  Mono: Playback 21 [68%] [-15.00dB] [on]

    To get a visual feedback use notify-send (from libnotify-bin):

    user@srv % notify-send "volume" "$(amixer get Master | grep dB | sed 's/\(^[a-z0-9 :]\+\[\|\[\|\]\)//gi')"
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  2. If you hover your mouse over the volume icon in the panel, the percent should show in a tooltip. I don't think the built-in Gnome applet has a feature like the one you describe.

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  3. Pulse audio control "pavcontrol" from the software centre displays percentage.

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