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Volume buttons please.

• bhrgunatha 5y ago
  This is a constant gripe for me. If you're going to play audio on your website, you really should provide a volume control.
  • comboy 5y ago
    Why? You have global volume control, music players have it. To me it's the same as asking every website for brightness adjustment bar or font size control.
    • ikiris 5y ago
      Because we don't want to have to readjust everything else around your special snowflake site?
      • comboy 5y ago
        I mean it sincerely. Are you listening to something else while using a website with sound? I usually just pause the music. If it's some music/podcast isn't it more handy to have a known volume knob on that instead of finding one on every website? I don't care about the right opinion. I'm just curious about scenarios where lack of volume control is a problem.
        • Beldin 5y ago
          Hear, hear. I know where my computer's volume controls are - and if I have a keyboard with volume controls, that's what they work on. I almost never want to touch a specific app's or website's volume control... unless its volume is way too soft even at max system volume. Basically, I don't need a gazillion interfaces. One suffices. Just don't go out of your way to make that generic, system-wide interface insufficient for your app and it'll be fine.
        • FartyMcFarter 5y ago
          I think you answered your own question. Not everyone needs just a single audio-playing app at the same time. Audio is also things like warning sounds, it isn't just music and games.
        • lottin 5y ago
          Suppose you use different apps that output sound. I use audacious, Firefox (Youtube) and mplayer on a regular basis. All these have their own volumes adjusted at different levels. Having a single volume isn't good enough. One app would be too loud and another too quiet. Plus I'm used to being able to change the volume on one app without affecting the others. Not having this control would be annoying.
        • ikiris 5y ago
          Yes, discord and twitch stream at minimum.
      • prmoustache 5y ago
        Hmmm, pulseaudio volume control allow me to change the volume and device used for every single source (app, firefox tab...) I am running.
    • pier25 5y ago
      I've been working on an audio player for my current project and debated whether to include a volume control or not. This led me to realize how different the experience is depending on the OS. On macOS and mobile, the vast majority of users are used to controlling the volume with hardware buttons. There are many media players that do not include a volume control precisely because of this (eg: Apple's podcast player for the web). On Windows and Linux, users do not always have hardware volume controls so the majority of users are accustomed to doing that in the media players themselves.
• djmips 5y ago
  Why isn't this built into the browser? Volume per tab or something.
  • aspaviento 5y ago
    You can mute a tab. That's something.
  • Procedural 5y ago
    Gotta wait for web 4.0 for that
  • pmarreck 5y ago
    On Linux at least, it is