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Logg:

--- Quote from: saratoga on November 19, 2009, 08:37:27 PM ---Actually no, at least not the way you're doing it.  dB are a logarithmic scale, so " x=x+100.0/65.0" is definitely not giving you percent of the maximum. If you want to do percentage of the maximum, -10dB is 10%, -20dB is 1%, -30dB 0.1% and so on. 

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You're right. It's not a percentage of possible maximum volume, it's a percentage of possible maximum volume setting. At least, that's how I interpreted your post.

Llorean:
So why are you trying to make the value confusing by presenting it as an arbitrary and virtually meaningless number?

Logg:

--- Quote from: Llorean on November 19, 2009, 08:55:29 PM ---So why are you trying to make the value confusing by presenting it as an arbitrary and virtually meaningless number?

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It's for personal use, so I don't have to worry about it not working for another person. I'm modifying the theme listed at the end of this sentence, and wanted a scale that I found more useful to me.  http://themes.rockbox.org/themes/320x240/too_much_information/wps-wps.png

In any case, thanks to both of you for answering my question.

Llorean:
In what way is a fake percentage "useful" then? If there's a valid use for it, it might deserve a real tag, but nobody's really provided one yet. You said it's more useful for you. Do you just mean "more aesthetic to me" or do you find an actual use for it?

Logg:

--- Quote from: Llorean on November 19, 2009, 09:12:31 PM ---In what way is a fake percentage "useful" then? If there's a valid use for it, it might deserve a real tag, but nobody's really provided one yet. You said it's more useful for you. Do you just mean "more aesthetic to me" or do you find an actual use for it?

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I'm not familiar with dB, so from your perspective, it may be ironic that that the dB measurement is arbitrary from my perspective. Since not all of my music tracks are recorded at the same volume, and I don't know the specific volume of which each track is recorded at, and since I can personally hear in real-time what the current volume is; I have always imagined the slider as an indicator of volume limit. This percentage scale I've created for myself replaces what I've lost in the slider while keeping it in text form.

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