On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:33:15PM +0200, Maarten Bosmans wrote: > 2011/9/22 Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk>: > >> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 17:08 +0300, David Henningsson wrote: > >> > Does not sound like anything I would like to enable by default - e g, > >> > what if hw mute introduces a click, and changing the volume does not? > >> If you think that such hardware is likely to exist, then I guess I'll > >> have to make this configurable, and disable it by default. The path > >> configuration files would get a new option for the [General] section: > >> "mute-during-activation = yes/no". Does that sound ok to you? > > The common failure mode there is that any change in volume introduces an > > artefact but it's proportional to the change in volume so if you ramp > > the volume up (rather than directly applying the new volume) you mask > > the issue. > Wouldn't that apply even more so to muting the channel, as that is the > largest volume change possible? That would be what I'm saying, yes. Note the context...