andyg;365560 Wrote: > Are you suggesting the player should adjust volume on a real-time basis? > Not sure that is possible, and it would probably sound horrible. Gain > shouldn't be applied like that... what about soft passages, or silence?
Agreed - and when you put it that way I can see it would be difficult to achieve. I guess I was thinking of something along the lines of the way that many newer model TV's have a feature to volume-level. I don't really know how this is technically achieved. It's possible that it's more 'volume-limiting' than volume-levelling. It seems to be an increasingly common practice for commercials, for example, to come on at significantly higher volume than the shows they interrupt. Unless you could have the player somehow 'sample' the stream for a period then adjust the volume based on the 'peak' volume, the only alternative seems to be for the user to apply a gain manually for each source/station based on trial/error. The former approach (sampling) would unfortunately still result in a source starting off at a different volume - at least for a brief period. I'm not sure how long you would need to sample to achieve this - in my experience you know as soon as the stream starts that it's louder than what you were previously listening to. Thinking further on that, it highlights another problem. Consider the case where when you last listened to something it was local music, after which you switch off the player. When you return (thinking specifically of the Boom here) you hit a favourite button to start a stream (without first having played another source). I'm not sure the player would be able to compensate against what you were previously listening to. -- twynne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ twynne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1326 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55780 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
