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Steam Deck's soundtrack player has significantly lower audio quality in game mode.

steamopen Steam clientAudioDistro Family: SteamOS
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11532 · opened 2024-11-30 by boonotakota · updated 2025-01-14 · 1 comments · github
Bboonotakota 2024-11-30 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version: 1731990050
  • SteamOS version: 3.6.20
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Opted into SteamOS beta?: No
  • Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When playing my soundtracks from within Game Mode on SteamOS, audio quality is significantly worse than when using Steam's audio player in Desktop Mode.

Steps reproducing this issue:

  1. Go to the soundtracks tab in SteamOS Game Mode.
  2. Play any downloaded soundtrack.
  3. Listen through headphones.
RRichardn2002 2025-01-14 github
  • Steam client version: 2025 January 6th
  • Distribution: Archlinux
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes

Also bumped into this issue on my system, sound quality much lower when soundtracks played inside Steam compared to directly playing the files (with VLC in my case).

For reproducibility, I am listening to the soundtrack of game S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH.

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