Solo and Mute

[Chris Frost]

From a non-technical point of view, it is in general bad behavior to mute people. Of course there are exceptions, but ...

It cannot be directly compared to "dead" tracks in an audio editor.

To mute living people is generally disguisting - I think

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If you don't want to listen to people in a session, I think you should leave the session and find another place to stay.

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Or simply tell people that they are now being thrown out because of the need for calm.

It would be something more friendly than muting them.

Solo is good as a tool to isolate someone if they have a noisy connection.  I actively use the mixer to balance all my sessions and it would be useful tool to use while balancing mainly because it is not always clear what instrument someone is playing.  Sometimes people have electric guitar, but are playing bass, etc.

The request was actually to make it ‘slightly less easy to accidentally mute others’ ..... its the usability of the UI that was being discussed.

There are several other posts discussing the etiquette on muting or not ..... but the function is definitely required at least by the session owner to enable the rejection of some who crash onto sessions just to spoil them - very sad but it has happened & will continue.