• N-E-N@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    While I like the concept, I don’t think it’s going to be very useful

    A given volume, e.g. 50% can be vastly different on different headphones/earbuds. Only really useful on 1st party products

    • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For me personally, I connect my phone to my car and always have my phone’s volume at 100% for the Bluetooth because I control the volume with the physical knob in the car.

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        1 year ago

        Man, I hate that BlueTooth doesn’t have an equivalent of “line-out” that isn’t affected by the host devices’ volume settings. It’s so annoying when I can barely hear my music because I turned the volume way down on my phone while watching a video late last night.

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          1 year ago

          There’s a setting in developer options to disable Bluetooth absolute volume. That can remove the sync from the media volume of your smartphone.

        • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Poweramp plus allows you to set audio profiles for different devices, I have never gotten it to work properly between my bluetooth, wired headphones, and android auto.

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        1 year ago

        This feature is only for wired headphones. They can not reliable calculate it for Bluetooth audio devices because of this very reason.

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          1 year ago

          They can’t do it for wired headphones either, hence why the current automation volume reduction sucks

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      1 year ago

      It’s should to be close enough, the spec is called sensitivity (SPL) and most headphone manufacturers try to hit around 100dB/mW.
      Hopefully the setting would allow you to fine tune it based on what headphones you have.

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        1 year ago

        Where exactly are you seeing that most manufactures are aiming for that spl?

        I own many headphones all with vastly different sensitivities. And headphones are almost always far less sensitive than IEM’s

    • Unbeelievable@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Samsung turns the volume icons green beyond 60%, and it’s much better than nothing; I would’ve raised the volume way above that way too often, if it weren’t for that feature.

      There’s a feature to limit increasing the volume beyond some point, which—if you enable—you’d have to disable it to increase the volume, but I find it unnecessary.