Reposted as a new thread, as requested: 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 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 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 volume or the graphical EQ to the desired values is a lot slower). It seems that the patches (and commits) 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 the sluggishness of dealing with 0.1dB increments with volume keys and in the graphical equalizer, I would like these changes to be either completely reverted, or fixed, usability-wise. 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. Guillaume Cocatre-Zilgien
