Can I revert sound played on the audio volume change to the old one (KDE 5's)?

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I’m enjoying new KDE 6 on KDE neon, but just one thing I don’t like in KDE 6 is the system sound played when I change the audio volume.

I usually change the audio volume when I play music on my PC and feel the volume is too small or too loud. KDE 5’s system sound on volume change was discreet and it didn’t prevent me to enjoy the music, but the new KDE 6’s sound is a bit noisy for me.
Since the new sound has musical scale while the old one doesn’t, the new sound is mixed with the music I play and produces dissonance. I’m not an expert in music and sound theory, but I guess that’s why it sounds noisy for me.

So I want to change the sound played on changing the volume, but how can I change it?

On KDE neon, the old sound is installed as /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-volume-change.oga. I want to use this sound instead of new one.

I found I can change some system sounds by opening System Settings > Notifications > Application-specific settings, but I couldn’t find the sound played on changing the volume.

Thanks in advance,
Jumpei

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I also want the dev team to consider reverting the sound if there are some other people who think the new sound is noisy.

Here’s a poll:

Which sound do you prefer, the old (KDE5’s) sound played on volume change or the new (KDE 6’s) one?
  • Old one (KDE 5’s)
  • New one (KDE 6’s)
0 voters
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You can switch to the old Oxygen sound effects under Colors & Themes > System Sounds. This will also change the volume feedback sound to the old one.

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@arttuc @massacre Thanks!

This time, I applied @arttuc’s way. I successfully reverted the sound.

Because I usually change the volume by scrolling the mouse wheel on the sound icon on the taskbar, I guess @massacre’s answer will not work for me.
But thanks anyway for your suggestion!

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Got the new Ocean sound theme on Debian testing today. Appreciate the method for reverting to the old sound as it was not as jarring. Another thing to mention is that when you hold down the volume down/up key to adjust level quickly, the new sound is too long so it ‘clips’ between bips, making the experience feel kind of unpolished.

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Completely necroposting here, but I’m ten steps downstream --updates finally made it through Debian and my general procrastination on installing updates, etc.

While I appreciate the option to switch the sound theme, as some general feedback… The default sound is too loud.

I’m watching a show on my laptop, and, perceptually, the new volume change sound is an order of magnitude louder than the actual show I’m watching. And I don’t think this is entirely just me being crazy… it honestly sounds like my laptop speakers are distorting playing it.

Here’s the thing–I’m sitting on a stool at my kitchen island, a few gin and tonic in, eating a brick of cheese at 2:30AM while my wife and kid are asleep. (My life is not in a good place, but that’s not what we’re talking about.)

A show starts sounding a bit loud, so I try and turn the volume down… and my laptop makes louder sounds. It’s too quiet, and I turn it up until the volume change sound is too damn loud, and the show is still too quiet.

I’m not going to go try and measure the SPL generated with the various sounds, frequency response, phase of the moon, etc but perceptually, I’d say the new sound is much more intense than the old one.

I’ll just keep setting my system to use the old sound scheme until the ned of time, but posting this as hopefully “constructive” feedback for anyone working on sound. I don’t think “use a different sound scheme” is a real fix here unless the entire thing is down to some weird frequency response on every set of speakers and audio system I own.