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OS: Chrome
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Type: Bug



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Need Microphone Level Adjuster (Esp. for external USB mics)

Reported by dan...@danielegan.co, Nov 30 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 8743.85.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.101 Safari/537.36
Platform: 8743.85.0 (Official Build) stable-channel chell

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Plug in a USB microphone and try to adjust the levels. (Mine always peaks. There's no way to adjust it in the OS.

What is the expected behavior?
There should be a mic level slider below the volume slider in the pop-up settings tray.

What went wrong?
With no way to control the mic levels, all my recordings with my USB mic are very low quality.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 54.0.2840.101  Channel: stable
OS Version: 8743.85.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0
 

Comment 1 by ketakid@google.com, Jan 31 2017

Owner: jen...@chromium.org
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)
jennyz@ please take a look at this issue and reassign as necessary.

Comment 2 by zork@chromium.org, Jul 14 2017

Components: -UI UI>Shell>StatusArea
Project Member

Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jul 16

Labels: Hotlist-Recharge-Cold
Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
This issue has been Available for over a year. If it's no longer important or seems unlikely to be fixed, please consider closing it out. If it is important, please re-triage the issue.

Sorry for the inconvenience if the bug really should have been left as Available.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
This bug has an owner, thus, it's been triaged. Changing status to "assigned".
There is no UI in ChromeOS to adjust the input audio device. In order to do so, we need to design the UI and implement it as a new feature.
Presently, the alsamixer is available in Developer Mode's bash shell, and can be used to change the gain on input devices.
Also noteworthy that the alsamixer input gain has been randomly changing (decreasing) from the initially set value to 2db gain.  It will drop down to -35db gain which seems to be the "default" for some reason.  Would expect a default of at least 0 gain.

Comment 8 by cag...@google.com, Yesterday (27 hours ago)

Cc: cag...@google.com

Comment 9 by cag...@google.com, Yesterday (27 hours ago)

Cc: jayhlee@chromium.org
 Issue 923586  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 10 by cag...@google.com, Yesterday (27 hours ago)

Cc: jayhlee@google.com
 Issue 924379  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 11 by laurahan...@squareup.com, Today (10 hours ago)

It's worth noting that since many Chrome devices are managed in an organization, developer mode is not permitted and therefore alsamixer is not an option (as is the case with our org).

Comment 12 by stepheng...@amplifiedit.com, Today (8 hours ago)

I've also noticed that the input volume will change wildly and automatically.  I have had the alsamixer open, volume set to 95%, and without input from me, will drop down to 5%.  This typically will happen when I open a new tab with meet.google.com.  If desired, I can try and get a video of this happening.

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