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Pet Peeve

One gripe I’ve got regardless of the OS or program that I’m using is that there are about a half dozen volume controls in most modern systems. For instance:

At home: With iTunes, there is an iTunes volume control on the program window, then a master system volume control in the Menu bar, and since I’m still running a speaker system from a couple of computers again, there is a speaker volume control, and the subwoofer has a separate volume control. Four ways to make Tribe Called Quest come booming out the speakers.

At work: WMP, MusicMatch and Real Audio all have volume control built into the program, then there’s a Windows master volume control in the system tray, and another dial on my speakers.

I suppose I can deal with the speaker volume control, but probably should move up to a newer set of speakers with one volume control for both subs and satellites. But would it be too much to ask software designers to tie a program specific volume control to the master volume control (or at least offer it as an option?).

Now that I’m griping, I can understand that if you’re dealing with more than one program that uses sound how individual volume controls would be useful, but it at least ought to be an option for us luddites who turn on music and want just one place to go to make it louder/softer.

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