Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-06 Thread Tommaso R. Donnarumma
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:36 +0200, Martín Soto wrote: > 2010/5/6 Tommaso R. Donnarumma > * Johann Sebastian wants to listen to music without > interruptions. He > needs a quick way to mute all sound sources except his music > player. > > There seems to be a general

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-06 Thread Martín Soto
2010/5/6 Tommaso R. Donnarumma > * Johann Sebastian wants to listen to music without interruptions. He > needs a quick way to mute all sound sources except his music player. > There seems to be a general need for a way to say the system "please do not disturb". This also applies to important VOI

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-06 Thread Martín Soto
2010/5/5 Alex Lourie > > I'd suggest, again, to begin with the "problem" cases, not solutions. For > example, when is the intervention needed to control volume? > Sure, this is the purpose of writing use cases. I was just acknowledging that ReplayGain and, in general, fully automated solutions

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-06 Thread Tommaso R. Donnarumma
Hi everyone! On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 23:32 +0200, Martín Soto wrote: > I just tried to collect some use cases (user stories) based on our > recent discussion about volume control. Here they are: > Thanks for these use cases. I think none of them addresses the needs of an audiophile who is listenin

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Frederik Nnaji
2010/5/5 Alex Lourie : > Set Firefox half-gain from Max by default? i wouldn't do that. most people i know watch movies in the browser, youtube, myspace, facebook, soundcloud etc half-gain/full-gain/mute is a poor alternative to automatic priority handling IMHO. browser volume *should* be con

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Lourie
2010/5/5 Martín Soto > > Based on the previous comments, I'm also tempted to add a fourth category: > > Sound spam: unexpected/undesired sound streams coming from Web pages. > > Of course, muting these automatically would be ideal, but can be very > difficult given their often malicious nature. A

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Lourie
2010/5/5 Martín Soto > > I'm also a fan of ReplayGain and use it whenever I can. The use case, > however, is there to show the need, not the solution. Indeed, the best > possible solution is one that doesn't require any user intervention to > achieve the desired effect, and, for this case, Replay

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Martín Soto
2010/5/5 Alex Launi > I think the take home message of this is that there are two distinct types > of sound streams. I'm going to use the analogy we've been using in > notifications- Synchronous and Asynchronous. > >- Synchronous streams are those that are user initiated. Banshee, >Empath

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Martín Soto
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Ralph Green wrote: > 2010/5/4 Martín Soto : > > * Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while > > she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She needs > > a quick way to set the volume to adapt it to her mood and to the > > recordi

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Martín Soto
2010/5/5 Alex Launi > 2010/5/4 Martín Soto > [...] > > * Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while >> she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She needs >> a quick way to set the volume to adapt it to her mood and to the >> recording level of the current so

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Ralph Green
replay gain tag, I meant On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Ralph Green wrote: >  For the ogg and mp3 files in my collection, I have encoded most of > them with the replain gain tag.  This can help the player set the ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.n

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-05 Thread Ralph Green
2010/5/4 Martín Soto : > * Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while >   she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She needs >   a quick way to set the volume to adapt it to her mood and to the >   recording level of the current song. Howdy, For the ogg and mp3 file

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
2010/5/4 Scott E. Armitage > Maybe this is outside the scope of the discussion, but with respect to > synchronous streams, I can think of many times where I am browsing websites > and opening new tabs as I'm e.g. reading an article when all of a sudden > something, somewhere, starts playing audio

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Scott E. Armitage
2010/5/4 Alex Launi > These were certainly helpful. I think you've nailed a lot of the sound > related use cases. > I think the take home message of this is that there are two distinct types > of sound streams. I'm going to use the analogy we've been using in > notifications- Synchronous and Asyn

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread David Hamm
oops, didn't mean to sent that just yet (alex), sry... but Basically: Voice chat, and notifications should just work! Incoming communication. For these instances background volume is automatically lowered. For other use cases and fine tuning a easy to get-to mixer solves the job. ___

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Launi
2010/5/4 Martín Soto > Hello everyone: > > I just tried to collect some use cases (user stories) based on our recent > discussion about volume control. Here they are: > > * Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while > she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She n

Re: [Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Those sound like solid use cases. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.l

[Ayatana] Use cases for volume control

2010-05-04 Thread Martín Soto
Hello everyone: I just tried to collect some use cases (user stories) based on our recent discussion about volume control. Here they are: * Mary often listens to music from the computer in her room, while she's chatting with friends and browsing the web. She needs a quick way to set the volum