Fixed
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Volume Boost had no audible effect with Spatial Audio on. The HeSuVi
virtual-surround chain's anti-clip limiter sits downstream of the channel's
own EQ "boost" node whenever Spatial Audio is enabled, and its fast (0.1s)
release makes it behave like a permanent compressor on Immersion-heavy
content rather than an occasional clipping guard — it reabsorbed Boost's
gain about as fast as it was added, silently capping the channel at the
limiter's fixed ceiling no matter how far the slider was raised. The
limiter's input gain now cancels Boost out before the ceiling (so the
anti-clip protection engages exactly as before) and reapplies that same
gain right after it, so Boost now sounds the same with Spatial Audio on as
it already did with it off. Also fixes a related dead code path: applying
all channels at once (a profile switch, or the live path a Boost slider
move actually takes) never reached the on-disk HeSuVi conf in the first
place, so neither Boost nor a moved Immersion/Distance slider from that
path took effect until something else happened to regenerate it. (#237) -
A system sound-settings UI (GNOME Settings, Cinnamon's sound applet,
KDE's Audio Volume applet) changing the headset's ALSA card profile could
silently kill all audio through it, with no error anywhere. Clicking the
device in one of those UIs — even reselecting the one already active —
can flip the card's active profile directly, not just the default sink;
once that happens the analog output/input sinks disappear from the
PipeWire graph entirely, and every channel ASM manages was pointed at a
sink that no longer exists. Restartingarctis-manager.serviceused to
be the only fix. A new watchdog check now detects a wrong profile and
restores the best one the card itself advertises (by the same priority
ranking PipeWire's own profile logic uses), so this self-heals within one
tick regardless of headset model. Contributed by @relxek. (#234)
