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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While I like the concept, I don't think it's going to be very useful

A given volume, e.g. 50% can be vastly different on different headphones/earbuds. Only really useful on 1st party products

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For me personally, I connect my phone to my car and always have my phone's volume at 100% for the Bluetooth because I control the volume with the physical knob in the car.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, I hate that BlueTooth doesn't have an equivalent of "line-out" that isn't affected by the host devices' volume settings. It's so annoying when I can barely hear my music because I turned the volume way down on my phone while watching a video late last night.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's a setting in developer options to disable Bluetooth absolute volume. That can remove the sync from the media volume of your smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Poweramp plus allows you to set audio profiles for different devices, I have never gotten it to work properly between my bluetooth, wired headphones, and android auto.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha yea another good example of this not working as intended

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feature is only for wired headphones. They can not reliable calculate it for Bluetooth audio devices because of this very reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They can't do it for wired headphones either, hence why the current automation volume reduction sucks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's should to be close enough, the spec is called sensitivity (SPL) and most headphone manufacturers try to hit around 100dB/mW.
Hopefully the setting would allow you to fine tune it based on what headphones you have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Where exactly are you seeing that most manufactures are aiming for that spl?

I own many headphones all with vastly different sensitivities. And headphones are almost always far less sensitive than IEM's

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Samsung turns the volume icons green beyond 60%, and it's much better than nothing; I would've raised the volume way above that way too often, if it weren't for that feature.

There's a feature to limit increasing the volume beyond some point, which—if you enable—you'd have to disable it to increase the volume, but I find it unnecessary.