Comment by arriu

5 years ago

The one asking the user to make noise as loud as you want the volume to be made me laugh but it does have a hidden feature... It will never be lower than ambiant noise. Perhaps a desireable feature?

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fiddlerwoaroof  5 years ago

Some sort of “set to X decibels louder than ambient noise” feature would be pretty amazing, actually.

  • slacktide  5 years ago

    My car does this and it's annoying as crap. Luckily it is easily disabled. Audi calls it GALA - "Graduated Audio Level Adjustment."

    • Sebb767  5 years ago

      In my VW it's linked to the car speed and I would not want to give this away. Turning the volume up and down when entering the highway or a slow stretch was really annoying on my old car.

    • fiddlerwoaroof  5 years ago

      I would think the best version would just be a button you push when you want to adjust the volume to a “reasonable” level. I agree that continuously varying the volume would be annoying.

acomar  5 years ago

it's also remarkably intuitive. like I laughed and then realized that would be a fairly pleasant way to control the volume for anyone with decent vocal control.

_tom_  5 years ago

Came here to advocate for this feature. You need to be able to set a minimum volume, so quiet sounds are audible over the current level of background noise.

runawaybottle  5 years ago

It made me laugh too, but imagine if you were blind. Would be about as simple as it would get to set the volume in that case.