"Your 'jams' have come to an end, mon Capitan."
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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Seriously.
I do like that it tells you, rather than just dying. But who the eff decided it was a great idea to have the low battery voice not only pause the music, but also repeat itself every 3 seconds???
I'm so worked up I'm using italics multiple times over here!!
One of mine doesn't pause the podcast. And when. You are listening at 2.8x you can miss a lot.
Damn, 2.8x. How high pitched is that?
Now highpitched at all. Any decent podcast player will automatically pitch shift the audio to make sure everyone sounds normal.
Interesting. Why do you speed it up? I've never sped anything I listened to up.
Not OP, but I speed up YouTube all the time watching podcast-like content. If the content is all in the words or audio that's not music, speeding it up doesn't hurt quality, and it helps my ADHD brain stay on topic if they're wheel-spinning for a few seconds with some 'ums', or just rephrasing something.
Basically... It's a really good way to condense compatible kinds of entertainment, at least for me. Unless it's a topic I really have to mull over, the sped up info delivery is priceless.
So you can listen to more content before the battery finally runs out.
So much this. I had a cheaper pair of Bluetooth headphones back in the day and when they got 10 percent or so they would loudly (regardless of volume set) proclaim
“BATTERY LOW”
Continue listening for maybe a minute
“BATTERY LOW”
I have maybe 5 minutes before I am home
“BATTERY LOW”
The battery will last till th
“BATTERY LOW”
TILL THEN NO PROBL
“BATTERY LOW”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgrgrggggggggggg
Additionally on some headsets it's also at full volume or it will be at fill volume if you use a volume mixer
They treat it like a low altitude warning in a fighter jet airplane. "Pull up! Pull up! Pull up!"
Wired headphones are the answer. Sound better, no batteries, no charging - ever -, excellent cross-device compatibility and a ton of other advantages I've written about elsewhere.
If only companies wouldn't remove the jack left, right and centre for mostly lousy excuses.
This is basically my opinion: https://www.soundguys.com/was-ditching-the-headphone-jack-a-good-idea-13825/
The convenience of not being wired to my device outweighs “better” sound.
Wired doesn’t immediately make it sound better. Plenty of crap or just cheap wired ones.
What is great is never getting up and have your ears ya led and and your phone sent flying because you forgot you set your phone on the table. Or worse, the cables got caught on the door knob.
The wire was always a point of failure that broke and needed me to buy new headphones though.
Yes, the cheap ones have that problem. Decent quality makes all the difference. I have had mine for years with no problems.
The Bluetooth ones with a detachable cable are the best of both worlds tbh
Cheap is fine. I don't use wired headphones as much, but I'd rather they break than whatever they're connected to. I'd have a bunch of devices with ruined ports if my headphones had been stronger. Best option would be if they just disconnected from the port, but that's less likely if the cable is orthogonal to the jack when I'm about to break it.
Back in the day, I thought Apple revolutionized with magnetic charging cables, but I never really saw that get widespread mass usage.
But now instead you just have no options when the batteries die, which in my experience has never broken 2 years.
The annoying thing is that there was a solution for this. They sold earbuds with anti-knotting wires a few years ago. I bought Sennheiser earbuds with anti-knotting wires, used them day in, day out, on the road in my pockets and at home at my desktop and they lasted for two and a half years. Given how much I used them, that's a long time. I bought the same model again and they too lasted very long. Now they suddenly did away with the perfect solution and want to do everything wireless as if we can spare the lithium. It's ridiculous.
They got rid of 3.5mm jacks because for 95% of the customer base they were as useful as bellybuttons, they collected lint. If you want to use a jack, get a dedicated audio device and pick whatever phone you want.
I would love a Q version of Siri.
Why can't they just add a beep. My earphone speakes whole sentence "battery low please put earphone for charging"
Not even a beep, AirPods have a pleasant little sound that goes down and fits battery is low somehow. It is once at 10 percent and again when they die. That’s it.
It’s not loud, it’s not annoying, just a little created sound to tell you battery is low.
wireless is NOT ALWAYS the future, everything i own that can work both wired and wirelessly works just as well if not better (in the case of my Quest 2) when in wired mode. i fucking hate bluetooth. i need about 3 times as long to connect my bluetooth headphones compared to sticking a 3,5mm jack in a hole. not to mention the limited bitrate and having to constantly plug in a cable to be able to use my wireless devices.
okay rant over. (and i am not a boomer, i am not even in my 20s)
I’d actually be less annoyed if Patrick Stewart’s voice told me low battery.
Low battery, hot.
I just started watching Billions for the first time, and I'm doing so through my nice over the ear headphones. When he's speaking in low tone, Paul Giamatti's voice is ready for ASMR prime time.
I ultimately didn't like that show but I might rewatch the first few episodes just for that velvet voice. Who knew he was hiding honey underneath the bed of Rusty nails that is his yelling?
Mine says it 3 times in 2 minutes and just shuts down. Which I find odd, because I admit it's getting old, but the battery still lasts 2-3 hours with a full charge.
Damn, 2-3 hours only? Mine last through a 10 hour shift, granted they barely make it to the end of the day at around 10% but I'd be buying new ones if they stopped making it through my full shift.
My Jabra headphones last 2-3 days, with meetings and listening to music.
Lakutis could just wirelessly charge them, though.
Picard didn't know what we was giving up in convenience.
*locutus
thanks, been a while. misremembered.
battery low, please recharge headset