Web nuisances are getting more nuisiancy.

[elfs]

Note to all web producers out there: if your Flash app messes with my volume settings and suddenly and without warning turns up the music I'm currently listening to VERY LOUD and inflicts pain, you will have lost my business.

CBS's news site did that to me this morning.

My computer is not a television and this is not the Outer Limits. You do not control the audio, or the video, nor all I see and hear. I do.

Comments

Re: It's a general complaint I have...

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

I'm perpetually annoyed at Winamp for doing this; I always get blasted out of my seat playing City of Villains after listening to MP3 files with Winamp.

Re: It's a general complaint I have...

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Actually, City of Heroes/Villains is a great example of a program that gets it right. It modifies the output it gives to the sound system, instead of modifying the sound system directly.

Re: It's a general complaint I have...

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

You misunderstand; it's Winamp that's the problem; I turn up the volumn on Winamp to have the music at an acceptable level, and it leaves my master volume cranked up, so that CoX is now too loud.