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Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by distract8901 »

playingalong wrote: post #16
ravenstine wrote: post #2

This is the one thing I dislike about Apple Airpods. I also don't like the connection sound effect because it adds a needless 2 second delay. Would love to get rid of both sound effects.

Likely the delay is not because of the sound effect. But the other way around - they added the jingle to mask the delay.

Bluetooth link negotiation happens in a few dozens of milliseconds. Any perceptible delay is down to the host operating system setting up audio drivers. The headset can't know what the host is doing or even that there is a delay.

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

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Post by fsckboy »

thedanbob wrote: post #48
baz00 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with the MSF time signal it'd make the same sound as the alarm for 2-3 seconds. You couldn't turn it off. This was invariably at 3AM or some horrible time. I eventually opened it up and cut the MSF…

How could anyone think such a "feature" was a good idea? I try to be charitable but that's got to be the result of either absurd incompetence or intentional maliciousness.

"can't fix it without violating the modularity of the abstractions"

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

#53

Post by yaomtc »

msrenee wrote: post #27
solarkraft wrote: post #23

I love this stuff. All of a sudden this model of earphones is quite interesting to me. Side note: The system sounds a bluetooth device makes are among the strongest differentiating factors (with some being completely awful; see https://youtu.be/J2wPsH64JEM ). Yet I have never seen a review or product page which tells you about what sound (which you will have to hear multiple times per day, with no way to opt out!) th…

I really wish I could turn down the play/pause beep on my aftershokz. It's perfect in a loud shop with earplugs in. Sitting in a quiet office with my music down low to concentrate, it's uncomfortable and startling. I don't understand why the system sounds don't respond to the volume level.

Speaking of aftershox how about disabling the absolutely useless "redial last number" function... I've accidentally triggered that like three times. I would never ever want this feature.

Actually, one of those times was on a different bluetooth headset so it's not Aftershox specific... just the unreasonably locked down, uncustomizable nature of Bluetooth devices I guess!

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

#54

Post by Vicinity9635 »

simonklitj wrote: post #42
Vicinity9635 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use it to play music, I go with audio books. it's actually better at pairing with my iphone and ipad than my apple devices, which is wild. Product page: https://www.amazon.com/MUSICOZY-Headphones-Bluetooth-Everyth...

I'm interested to hear in what way it pairs better!

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Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

#56

Post by iforgotpassword »

thedanbob wrote: post #48
baz00 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with the MSF time signal it'd make the same sound as the alarm for 2-3 seconds. You couldn't turn it off. This was invariably at 3AM or some horrible time. I eventually opened it up and cut the MSF…

How could anyone think such a "feature" was a good idea? I try to be charitable but that's got to be the result of either absurd incompetence or intentional maliciousness.

There is a VDSL modem/router/wifi/Powerline combo device by the Deutsche Telekom called "Speedport neo". It's actually totally functional andwl pretty cheap, at least a few years ago it was almost a steal on some websites.

The super awesome feature it had was that it contained a speaker that would play the Telekom jingle every time the connection was established. This cannot be disabled and would happen at night too. So if you had a flakey connection, or used it on some other provider that still had the forced disconnect every 24 hours, it would drive you nuts pretty quickly. So I assume a lot of people took too the obvious fix to this...

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

#57

Post by az09mugen »

thedanbob wrote: post #48
baz00 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with the MSF time signal it'd make the same sound as the alarm for 2-3 seconds. You couldn't turn it off. This was invariably at 3AM or some horrible time. I eventually opened it up and cut the MSF…

How could anyone think such a "feature" was a good idea? I try to be charitable but that's got to be the result of either absurd incompetence or intentional maliciousness.

A bad project manager/lead could do that

Re: Fixing the volume on my Bluetooth earbuds

#58

Post by iforgotpassword »

baz00 wrote: post #26
Vicinity9635 wrote: post #4

Man I wish someone would do this for my bluetooth sleep mask. It's pretty great except for one thing: When the battery is low or it's going to power off it announces it to you at full volume. On a sleep mask.

That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with the MSF time signal it'd make the same sound as the alarm for 2-3 seconds. You couldn't turn it off. This was invariably at 3AM or some horrible time. I eventually opened it up and cut the MSF…

On that note, about 20 years ago, there suddenly was an abundance of small cheap alarm clocks with DCF77 receivers available. Got one of these and totally overslept every couple months. I eventually got a second alarm and set it a few minutes before the other one, and sure enough eventually there was a day where the second one (so my original one) didn't ring its alarm. I didn't look at the clock so was not able to see what was going on, but at least knew it wasn't me.

years later when I long didn't use that clock as an alarm anymore, I had it in a spot where it wouldn't properly receive the DCF signal and I noticed that it would quickly lag behind after just a few days. So my theory at that point was that sometimes the clock just managed to fall behind enough in its old spot and then resync just when the alarm would've gone off, and there was no logic to account for this. ie the clock would compare the time to the set alarm exactly once a minute, but when the clock would receive a new time signal of 7:01:00 when its local time was 6:59:59 or earlier, I'd oversleep.

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