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It makes perfect sense that the sliders start at 0dB and go down to -inf. Maybe you don't understand it, but it definitely makes sense. Everyone who uses dB has also tried a % scale with 100% as 0dB, and then later made a conscious choice to figure out how dB work.

Maybe they're all in a conspiracy to make things needlessly complex. But that's not the only possibility.

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viraptor 2 days ago | parent [-]

> and then later made a conscious choice to figure out how dB work.

You're just projecting your ideas here. I've not made that choice, it's just the only option in a lot of software - I'd like my % slider back.

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seba_dos1 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

% slider sounds like a good idea until you actually have to use it.

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formerly_proven 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Windows has 0-100 volume sliders if you like that better.

They are still some kind of faux-logarithmic*

*behavior depends on drivers/hardware.**

**for some hardware 50 in Windows will be neutral and 100 will be something like a +30 dB digital gain, that's probably in part because Windows is mapping the 0-100 range in some way to the USB audio control range, which is at most +-127 dB or something like that.***

***with some audio interfaces (the non-USB-Audio-class kind) the 0-100 actually becomes a linear factor of 0-1, making the windows controls very useless indeed, as 70% of the slider range does approximately nothing.

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nyeah 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Right. Decibels are my idea.

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viraptor 2 days ago | parent [-]

Projecting in that context means you claimed what other people think/do, because it's what you think/do. It's about describing the conscious choices of others (where my experience disagrees for example) not about decibels specifically.

	▲	nyeah 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed, you are using the word "projecting" fine. But you're ignoring the actual behavior of people using dB in the real world.