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I don't understand why anyone would prefer a volume slider to discrete up/down buttons. I almost never want to quickly slide to a specific volume, it's always "
by ohazi 6y ago
I don't understand why anyone would prefer a volume slider to discrete up/down buttons. I almost never want to quickly slide to a specific volume, it's always "this is a little too loud" or "I didn't quite hear that."
The action I want is a quick relative tick up or down, then listen again to see if the improvement is adequate, then repeat as necessary until it's perfect.
Sliders are good for quickly moving by a large amount to a rough absolute position. But they're utter crap for fine adjustment.
Am I the only one who gets infuriated when trying to get to the exact spot I want by rolling my finger ever so slightly to get a slider to move by half a pixel? It takes forever and it gives you RSI!
- yakkers 6y agoYou can 'flick' the volume or brightness button on the Touch Bar to the left or right to turn down/up respectively. It even works holding down Shift+Option to enable more fine control of either.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago> It even works holding down Shift+Option to enable more fine control So now I need to use two hands and look at the control to use it when the previous worked fine one handed on touch alone.
- wingerlang 6y agoFine grained control (+0.1 "dots") still required two hands before I think?
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoCan be done one handed (opt+shift+vol) but it wasn't needed to fix inaccuracy in the default interface as the post I replied to suggested
- koynoyno 6y agoI missed Shift+Option fine control and didn't know that. Thank you!
- crobertsbmw 6y agoSometimes I just want to do a slow fade to set the mood you know...
- qppo 6y ago> they're utter crap for fine adjustment I think if you'd make this suggestion to audio engineers they'd throw their consoles at you
- ohazi 6y agoSorry, I specifically meant touch sliders, not physical sliders, and especially not physical sliders with nicely tuned damped physical resistance like on expensive audio equipment.
- whywhywhywhy 6y ago>I don't understand why anyone would prefer a volume slider to discrete up/down buttons Blows my mind how an interface I can operate with my eyes closed on touch alone would ever be considered inferior to one I actually have to engage directly with with and change modes to access sliders.
- wingerlang 6y ago> I don't understand why anyone would prefer a volume slider to discrete up/down buttons. I almost never want to quickly slide to a specific volume, it's always "this is a little too loud" or "I didn't quite hear that." Have you actually used the slider to get used to it? It requires a significant-ish slide to increase/decrease a full dot. And by significant-ish I mean it is easy to adjust it less than one dot. That being said I used to think the same until I got used to it, I slide more than a few dots up and down all the time. I would not want to go back to taptaptaptap.