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Wed, 22 Sep 2004

Volume

I'm playing music in Winamp and the volume is too loud. It's at this point that I realize I'm going to have to find the fifty places that control volume on my machine. They are:

Winamp - has a volume slide thingy
Windows - has a volume slide thingy for "Wave"
Windows - has a volume slide thingy for "Main"
my laptop - has a master volume which is adjusted by the Fn and VolUp and VolDn keys
my headphones - has a volume thingy between the headphone jack and the headphones

There seem to be a lot of things in computing and life that are like this.

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Comments:

Posted by Guido on Thu Sep 23 12:29:26 2004
It's about the same here :) I don't have a laptop, but I do have an external soundcard - with a volume wheel. And I have plugged that soundcard into a mixer (which I'm using to mix it with my keyboard and synth) - there's a volume slider per track, plus a master volume slider. And then the whole thing goes to the amp, where - of course - there's an additional volume control.

I guess a little redundancy can't hurt, but that's an awful lot of redundancy :)

The other Guido, the one that invented Python, has an interesting view on the subject though. He wants to have one right way to do things, to make the language stringent and easily understandable - which is exactly opposed to the philosophy Perl uses, for example...

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