The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

Post by whywhywhywhy » Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 12:54 PM UTC

hnick wrote: post #59

webwielder2 wrote: post #4

Apple won this back in 1999: https://i.imgur.com/V9WQ8Gc.png

Speaking of Apple, it is more than a little frustrating that if I start driving with Google Maps, and I realise it's too quiet, the volume control changes the Ringer instead of the media volume unless I time it to be while she is speaking. Which is kind of tough if it's really quiet, and hard to catch during shorter snippets anyway. I remember on Android when the app had focus it'd always change the media volume in t…

Post by gambiting » Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 12:57 PM UTC

stefan_ wrote: post #36

I think the worst UI is simply the Teams one, because it presents as an app volume control but then simply controls the global device volume . Fuck off, you are not the only app running. But that comes second to the microphone gain control, which Teams similarly exerts unilateral control over - only this time through an automated algorithm that for some microphone types just ends up muting them entirely. It's wild, y…

Post by OGWhales » Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 12:59 PM UTC

heythere22 wrote: post #187

mortenjorck wrote: post #107

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Teams’ notifications on Mac are an ongoing debacle. Because they are Microsoft’s own implementation, rather than using the system API, not only do they not respect DND, they also helpfully get lost behind other notifications that come in from properly designed applications. According to the Microsoft admin updates I’m subscribed to, native notifications on Mac have been in a beta channel for months, with a full rollo…

You would think its better on windows, but it's not. The notifications ignore the global notification settings and pop up even when you only allow notifications with priority. And they are using their own implementation as well

Post by spacechild1 » Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 1:03 PM UTC

baalimago wrote: post #341

This is the new volume control in windows 11 (some insider version they've randomly thrown at me): https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/786/aIfxKh.png It's atrocious. No slider, clicking on it "blips" the speakers so you can hear how loud it is. You have to hover pointer on top of it which enlarges the green circle by about 10% to show "Hey, you're hovering me, in case you missed it!" and then scroll so the the tin…

Post by beardyw » Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

einr wrote: post #239

leduyquang753 wrote: post #164

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That's commonplace in audio production programs/plugins actually.

It is, and it kind of sucks. Worse yet: in different VST plugins, for instance, sometimes you're supposed to click the knob and drag up and down, sometimes you're supposed to move the mouse in a circle as if you were rotating the knob.