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[John Lea <1373404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  The EU has a legal requirement for personal music players to prevent hearing damage.
  http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009D0490&rid=1
  ____________
  
- For the purpose of this Decision, a ‘personal music player’ means a
- portable device, that is not covered by Directive 1999/5/EC or Directive
- 2006/95/EC, with headphones or earphones, used to listen to recorded,
- generated or broadcasted sound.
+ Desired resolution:
  
- 1. For the purpose of Article 4(1)(a) of Directive 2001/95/EC, the
- safety requirement for personal music players shall be the following:
- Personal music players shall be designed and manufactured in a manner
- that ensures that, under reasonably foreseeable conditions of use, they
- are inherently safe and do not cause hearing damage.
- 
- 2. The requirement set out in paragraph 1 shall include in particular
- the following:
- 
- (1) Exposure to sound levels shall be time limited to avoid hearing
- damage. At 80 dB(A) exposure time shall be limited to 40 hours/week,
- whereas at 89 dB(A) exposure time shall be limited to 5 hours/week. For
- other exposure levels a linear intra- and extrapolation applies. Account
- shall be taken of the dynamic range of sound and the reasonably
- foreseeable use of the products.
- 
- (2) Personal music players shall provide adequate warnings on the risks involved in using the device and to the ways of avoiding them and information to users in cases where exposure poses a risk of hearing damage.
- ____________
- 
- Related documents:
- http://ec.europa.eu/health/opinions/en/hearing-loss-personal-music-player-mp3/
- http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-08-1492_en.htm
- http://ec.europa.eu/news/environment/090928_en.htm
- http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-09-1364_en.htm
- 
- Design:
- 
- <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#limits>: "Whenever you are using
- headphones, Ubuntu should frequently measure the volume of sound output.
- Whenever it is over 47 dB(A), your quota should be reduced
- accordingly..."
- 
- [Originally reported in private bug 1370591.]
+ - For RTM the design spec'ed in the following section of the Sound wiki
+ page should be implemented
+ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#Warnings_.28note:_This_section_should_be_implemented_for_RTM.29

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1373404

Title:
  No warning of high volume level

Status in Sound Menu:
  New
Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  Fix Committed
Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ubuntu-system-settings” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The EU has a legal requirement for personal music players to prevent hearing damage.
  http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32009D0490&rid=1
  ____________

  Desired resolution:

  - For RTM the design spec'ed in the following section of the Sound
  wiki page should be implemented
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#Warnings_.28note:_This_section_should_be_implemented_for_RTM.29

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