Please add a fine grained music control [feature/workaround request]

[ghost]

Android has a long-standing unfixed issue of having a way too coarse volume control on some devices.

Since apparently nobody gives to fix any of this in the system although it has been broken and reported for years and the standard EQ doesn't have an easy overall gain control, it would be nice to have a fine-grained volume setting somewhere hidden in the Vanilla Music settings which allows more detailed adjustments to work around this nonsensical limitation.

Since I noticed there is already support for PreGain tags, I was hoping vanilla already has the internal capabilities for fine-grained volume adjustments, and I hoped this might be a feasible thing to do to allow music listeners suffering from this Android limitation to adjust the volume to what they actually need. It would certainly be a god-sent for me personally...

[adrian-bl]

Since I noticed there is already support for PreGain tags, I was hoping vanilla already has the
internal capabilities for fine-grained volume adjustments,

In theory this would be 'easy' to implement - but i'm not sure how to do it in practice :-)

AFAIK, there is no way to (fully) hijack the volume buttons, at least not while we are in the background.

[ghost]

It would be perfectly sufficient if it was a simple slider in the settings. It doesn't need to be super accessible, even the silliest way of adding this would be a huge improvement to android's annoying limited default behavior....

Of course if you can even hijack the volume buttons and make it work with those as well, then even better!

[un-logic]

An Album cover action maybe?

[ghost]

I'm really fine with anything. Anywhere. Right now I'm abusing AudioFX on/off for -6db difference to get some half-step in between and I'm doing a constant switcheroo with that and going one step up/down with the hardware volume buttons. No fun

[adrian-bl]

The main issue with this is that we can only lower the volume. Would this still be useable?
If yes, then we could implement something like a 'base-volume' slider in the audio/replaygain settings

[ghost]

Sure, that is fine with me. I could just always lower it to 80% so I have some wiggle room, and run the hardware volume a bit higher, that would work perfectly fine - as long as the vanilla volume control is fine-grained enough (preferably a continuous slider instead of the big steps android forces me to do)

[rancidfrog]

This would be great. Is it still on the agenda?
To be able to adjust percentage of current system volume output.
But it would be app specific, no?
Meaning if another app plays media in the background it would still use full system volume whereas vanilla would be playing x% of system volume with:

Is it possible to have slider in the empty space between cover and play controls in Now Playing screen?