db volume scaling

[Jeff Mitchell]

Jud Craft wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Pavel Shved<pavel.shved at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 23:45:18 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>>> ...WTF are you going on about, Pavel?
>> About please, please, please please just once answer to a complex-feature-
>> contributor `would be nice, submit patch with your feature as a non-default
>> option'
>> instead of `out target audience is too dumb for that, go to hell'.
>>
> 
> That's not his response.  He actually encouraged the patch for
> volume-scaling, but not for the UI change.  And his reason for
> disliking the UI change was not "users are dumb."
> 
> It's more frankly, "need a better justification than 'I don't like
> percentages'."  We're talking about a text caption on a meter, and
> what type of caption (a unit of % or a dB) has no effect on the real
> end-use-case of it (users just moving the meter up and down to find a
> value they like).
> 
> If they implement the scaling patch (so Tim gets the dB scaling he
> wants) but leaves the UI with % marks for a normal user, everyone will
> be just fine, since those who understand logarithmic scales will be
> able to do the math for a %-dB conversion on the scale Tim has
> suggested.  Especially since Tim has already outlined how he did it.

Exactly.  It would behave like a logarithmic scale, which supposedly is
the better/more natural way for it to behave, but it will look like a
percentage scale that is used by the vast majority of players and
personal devices.

--Jeff

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