Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
Adjusting Volume via ambient noise on players with a mic
(V)3@7Y:
this sounds like a pretty cool idea
it'll take alot of refining i imagine.
but i have found 1 flaw. being impressed by the extreme capabilities of your DAP, you show your friends this amazing feature. soon enough your back to listening to your music when suddenly, someone comes up and screams into the microphone of your DAP... instant deafness.
whether this will be an issue, i am unsure, obviously it will be optional, but there will probably be alot of practical issues involved with it.
Chronon:
I don't think it's a great idea. If ambient noise is a problem it's generally better to take steps to reduce ambient noise than to boost the amplitude of the sound pressure. If the ambient noise floor drops and you suddenly realize that you have the volume way too loud then you are still damaging your hearing when the ambient noise floor rises again. This just sounds like a way to mask dangerous volume levels from yourself.
pabouk:
I see only two possibilities how to reduce the ambient noise in the described situations:
- avoid the place (it is difficult if I want to travel by train for example ;D )
- use headphones which more attenuate the ambient noise (I do not like this much because I want to hear the ambient sound in some situations without taking the headphones off.)
Anyway I do not need the sound volume much higher than the ambient noise and I prefer to lower the volume in quiet places just because I do not want to be deaf to quieter ambient sounds. Mostly I listen to spoken word thus I do not need high volume like when I am listening to music.
soap:
--- Quote from: pabouk on August 21, 2008, 06:11:40 AM ---- avoid the place (it is difficult if I want to travel by train for example ;D )
- use headphones which more attenuate the ambient noise (I do not like this much because I want to hear the ambient sound in some situations without taking the headphones off.)
--- End quote ---
Active noise canceling headphones have an off switch if you want ambient noise, and they sell passive noise attenuating IEMs with an inline microphone to allow you to hear ambient noise at your discretion.
Turning up the volume in response to increased ambient noise is unarguably a bad idea.
eylonk:
What about a simple reduced feature"
Pause when ambient noise cross a threshold, replay when cross back again.
This make sense, when you walk and a very noisy bus come, you can't hear anything anyway so the right thing to do is pause for few seconds.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version