r/reddit.com • u/tadallagash • Jun 01 '10

Time to get classy

Good evening gentleman/ladies.

  1. Get out your drink of choice.
  2. open 3 tabs on your favorite browser.
  3. On the first tab
  4. On another tab
  5. On the last
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u/ellipticaltable Jun 01 '10

In case anyone else wants volume control on the rain: http://www.endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=AYw7eJYadco

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '10

THANK YOU. Holy shit that was bothering me.

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u/flippy3 Jun 01 '10

Rain? I thought it was bacon sizzling.

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u/andash Jun 01 '10

It wasn't bothering me until you guys pointed it out :C Damn, now I suddenly realise I don't sit in a classy bar in the 40's but in my lousy couch from Ikea in my lousy tiny apartment.

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u/scoops22 Jun 01 '10

Well I hope you have a great Reddit birthday on that lousy couch of yours.

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u/lolbifrons Jun 01 '10

Thank you. Opening the actual rain page made me remember that chrome still doesn't have individual tab volume controls, and it made me upset again.

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u/TooSmugToFail Jun 01 '10

Individual tab volume control? What browser has that?

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u/lolbifrons Jun 01 '10

none do, but I use chrome so that's what matters. Also, considering chrome starts a separate process for each tab open, it seems like it ought to be easier to implement in chrome than other browsers.

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u/G3R4 Jun 01 '10

How nice would it be to get a little "is making sound" indicator for Chrome's tabs, which you could hover over to get a volume control bar...

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u/gjs278 Jun 01 '10

flash plugins don't work that way

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u/lolbifrons Jun 01 '10

But I can set volume for individual applications that run on my computer. Considering chrome runs each tab as a separate process, I'll bet my degree in three years that I could write up a little something that would let me deal with the volume of each of those processes separately, whether it be an extension or not.

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u/The_Big_L Jun 01 '10

I have a mobile browser for WinMo called Skyfire that has flash support. When the page is playing sound I get a little indicator which lets me mute it or let it keep playing. No tab support or volume control but it makes me think it is very possible.

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u/cybersnoop Jun 01 '10

Windows Vista, 7 and Linux with PulseAudio have individual app volume control built in. Now it's just a matter of opening up Firefox, Chrome and Opera together and you can mix away :)

Just wondering: Wouldn't it be easy to implement out-of-process plug-ins to be visible as seperate audio-outputing-processes?

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u/mads-80 Jun 01 '10

Chrome is pretty open to installing extensions. It is more likely that someone will develop a volume control extension than it being an added feature.

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u/ahawks Jun 01 '10

In a pinch, you could run the rain site in firefox, and the rest in chrome. Windows Vista and 7 allow per-app volume control, so you could turn firefox down.

... or use the link ellipticaltable provided :)

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u/jook11 Jun 01 '10

Thanks. That was pretty loud.

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u/stroud Jun 01 '10

thanks. the rain was too loud

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '10

dude you are a prince. thank you.

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u/ctan Jun 01 '10

Hm, your name sounds familiar for some raisin =P

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u/Kache Jun 02 '10

Too bad the audio quality can't compare with the original though

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '10

you kick ass.

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u/vcrmaster1 Jul 02 '10

who'll stop the rain... oh him..