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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Volume handling: steps and radioRe: Volume handling: steps and radio
From: Amaury Pouly <amaury.pouly_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:53:17 +0200 > I would like to see some discussion (and eventually, an authoritative > decision or consensus) regarding the recent increase in resolution of > volume and equalizer handling, from 0.5dB to 0.1dB. > > I highly doubt that a 0.1dB difference is at all audible. Moreover, it > will probably do absolutely *nothing* on targets with hardware that > doesn't support it, which I bet means a lot of devices. > > I'm pretty sure that 0.5dB is hardly audible for the very large > majority of people to begin with (saratoga seems to think so), though > I think it's nice to be able to change volume or an equalizer band by > 25% or 75% of "double the volume", i.e. 1.5dB or 4.5dB, compared to > 3dB (50%) or 6dB (100%). > > I wouldn't bring this up if it improved anything at all (I don't think > it does), and if it didn't degrade basic functionality (getting the > graphical EQ to the desired values is a lot slower) or downright > *broke* it (the current git revision badly breaks volume control on > the Fuze+). > > It seems that the patch (and commit) were validated a bit hastily, by > few people, and without much thought given to the consequences. > > Unless someone demonstrates a significant advantage that I haven't > thought of, and / or fixes volume control AND the sluggishness of > dealing with 0.1dB increments in the graphical equalizer, I would like > this change to be completely reverted. Soap, on IRC, proposed that > such fine-grained values be accepted in the configuration file, but > not reflected in the user interface. That sounds perfectly acceptable > to me, and would probably satisfy the most "enthusiastic" users, > without bugging everyone else. > The driver rewrite making them working with 0.1dB steps is not related to the equaliser. I suggest you start a dedicated discussion on this particular issue. Received on 2013-07-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |