Bug 460241

Summary:	Feature request: Make volume change in decibels instead of percentages.
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma-pa	Reporter:	Syiad <syiad.al-duri>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, me, nowrep
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Syiad 2022-10-11 14:16:03 UTC

SUMMARY
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Currently the volume can only be adjusted in percentage steps from 0 to 100%, where the latter means maximum output. It would be nice, if the user could change this to decibels, where 0 dB means maximum undistorted  output. The range could then e.g. be from -57 dB to +6 dB like on RockBox (c.f. https://download.rockbox.org/daily/manual/rockbox-iriverh300/rockbox-buildch6.html#x9-1030006.1). A level of +6 dB would then slightly overpower the output at the risk of distortion.
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Comment 1 David Edmundson 2022-10-11 15:27:10 UTC

We don't have enough information at our level to do this reliably.