Volume controls are important, and should remain. To detail "d)": I frequently have 3 video/audio sources pending - a movie (which I'll interrupt), a podcast (

Volume controls are important, and should remain. To detail "d)": I frequently have 3 video/audio sources pending - a movie (which I'll interrupt), a podcast (which I'll speed through, and also interrupt), and a web flash video (alerted via tweet or email). Because their recorded average audio levels are all (wildly) different, for every type of media and content producer, each player's audio level is different, but fixed for the current selected media. So, the embedded web video had _better_ have a volume control, or I'm going to be annoyed, because I _don't_ want to be continually adjusting the system master volume control just because I'm pausing, unpausing various media sources. It's an _action minimization_ thing. For my smartphone, I'm forced to adjust the main volume control when switching media, and I dislike having to do that so much that it tends to make me _not use_ my phone as a media player.