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We will need to balance the value of additional settings. I have already had
complaints that the app has too many settings. There is no risk to the phone
speaker as it is perfectly capable of operating at full volume for long
periods. The device manufacturer would not install a speaker that you can fail
by using the volume control at the max. I often use that setting when showing
videos in a noisy place for instance.
I am thinking we should add 2 settings:
1) Make the current volume up delay adjustable. Today it is hard coded to 5
seconds. Apparently that is not long enough for some devices.
2) Make a new ramp in feature. I am thinking this will be hard coded. It will
ramp in at say 1 tick per second. Generally the volume has 15 ticks from mute
to max.
Will this meet the requirements? It should be a decent balance between
simplicity and usability. With this 1 setting and a hard coded delay you
should never get blasted again. In fact, I question the value of the ramp. I
think the delay is enough but in the case where your cars volume is too high I
can see the use case where ramping would be nice. Any thoughts or comments?
This issue is related to issue 80 and issue 86 as well.
Original comment by JimR...@gmail.com
on 12 Feb 2012 at 2:44
Original comment by JimR...@gmail.com
on 12 Feb 2012 at 2:44
I just posted version 2.5.0 here in the downloads section ready for testing.
See the 2 new preferences at the bottom of the preferences menu. I added a
configuration to the volume up delay time (was previously hard coded to 5s) and
a volume up ramp. Please test and let me know how this works for you.
Original comment by JimR...@gmail.com
on 12 Feb 2012 at 5:30
Original comment by JimR...@gmail.com
on 16 Feb 2012 at 11:55
Hi!
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
The volume ramping seems to be working.
However I'm having other problems, and I haven't had a chance to investigate
them further, due to some kitchen reno's I started doing.
I am having problems with WinAMP always starting from the beginning when it
connects through bluetooth, and I have to tell my head unit to play or pause
twice in a row to get it to perform that action.
I'm going to go back to the basics - I want to do some more testing with the
default player. I'll let you know what I find.
Original comment by tryoung...@gmail.com
on 20 Feb 2012 at 9:08
Winamp has some issues, especially on ICS. Most music players will
automatically pause on Bluetooth disconnect but some like Winamp and Pandora
don't do this consistently. I to send a pause command on disconnect as well so
most music players should pause. I considered adding a feature that will send
the play command but that will require that a music player be active. I also
found that this causes the default player to play even if another player is
playing sometimes. Another problem can be that memory is low and background
tasks get killed, such as the paused player.
There are 3 music players I would recommend: Google Music, Amazon MP3, and the
default player. Those all seem to do as they are told. Google Music and
Amazon are both free cloud players as well as being able to play local content.
Original comment by JimR...@gmail.com
on 20 Feb 2012 at 12:02
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
tryoung...@gmail.com
on 12 Feb 2012 at 1:06