[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 429579] Re: all (audio)players should have the same preset sound volume

[Harald Sitter]

Well, honestly I think this is a rather poinless change for 3 reasons:
a) Different decodes possibly can lead to different volumes (say you use Amarok and VLC, they use different libraries to decode the media files, so 100% might not be what VLC considers 100%).
b) I am no HCI specialist, but my assumption is that a "regular" user (that is someone who might not even know that app volume != system volume) will almost always try to change the volume in the app itself. There they got some icon and a slider indicating that volume can be manipulated here, which makes me believe that they will almost always opt for this way of changing the volume.
c) As you pointed out already. Different files have different levels, so without global replaygain the proposal does not make sense.

c is especially important, because everything stands and falls with this
fact. Without replaygain Rythmbox and Totem could both be using 100% by
default and yet your hearing will get blasted. On that remark I'd also
like to point out that replaygain is constantly eating resources and
thus not gonna happen by default anyway :|

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all (audio)players should have the same preset sound volume
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