Hello, 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. I was asked to provide a patch, but it seems to me that changing the initial two lines that specify the increments, wouldn't be enough, given that more recent modifications were made to deal with the lower value. I am not able to provide a patch that would completely revert all related changes, with absolute certainty of doing it right. Guillaume Cocatre-Zilgien
