pa_volume is a simple tool to set the remembered volume level of pulseaudio clients. It requires module-stream-restore to be loaded (which is usually the case) to function. When called without arguments it shows all the known clients (running and non-running) and their remembered volume level. To set the volume level pass it the name of the client followed by the volume in percent.
No configure script is provided right now, but there is a simple Makefile. You will need to have pkg-config and the development packages for libpulse installed. To create a man page, pandoc is required. On Debian/Ubuntu based distributions these are the pkg-config, libpulse-dev, pandoc packages.
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libpulse-dev pandoc
git clone https://github.com/rhaas80/pa_volume.git
cd pa_volume/
makeThis program is available on the AUR for Arch Linux-based distributions as
pa_volume-git.
pa_volume paplay 50.1will set the volume of paplay to 50.1%.
pa_volumewill list all known clients and their rememebered volume level for each channel.
pa_volume paplay 66 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereowill set the volume of paplay to 66% on a PCI sound device
pa_volume paplay togglewill toggle mute for paplay