It seems like I didn't explain myself quite clearly then.

The volume setting on the TV has been constant this whole time. Lets
just say that the setting is such that the music is playing very loud.

Lets say I want to change that, so I go into my sound settings on my
laptop, changing the "software" volume level from 100% to 50%. All is
very good now, as the music is playing at a normal sound level.

Maybe my girlfriend gets a phone call, so to be polite I change the
sound output to be my headphones (which are plugged in). As I do so, the
volume level on the laptop is set to 10%, as it was last time I used my
headphones.

When the phone call is over, I change the sound output back to the TV
(which is connected over HDMI). The problem is that the music is playing
very loud, even though the reported volume level on my laptop is 50% (as
before).

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That is what my bug is about.

As I tried to explain above, this can be solved by finding the Sink ID
(pactl list | grep 'Sink #') and afterwards doing a dummy change to the
volume level (pactl set-sink-volume <SINK-NUM> +0). This changes the
sound level on my TV, back to the music playing at a normal level.

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Hope this clears things up

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  pulseaudio doesn't enforce remembered volume when changing to HDMI
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