Electronics nerds get in here I have a question about speakers

My in laws gifted my kid this pretty cool RC car but it makes this awful music that’s REALLY loud. Can I wire a resistor in series on one of the speaker legs to turn the volume down, say 50%?

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Sure, you could also use a potentiometer to give it a volume control dial
- See, the problem with doing this is that the kid will just turn it back up all the way. I think what you'd actually want here is a voltage divider, right? Just putting a resistor in series is going to distort the already crappy audio quality even more which is going to make it sound even worse, just not as loud.
  
  A voltage divider is a resistor in series
- Hell yeah, working as expected?
Yes, but it might be easier to stick a gum on the membrane? Or is it a small tweeter?
- Yeah, the easy parenting hack for noisy toys is a piece of tape over the speaker. Doesn’t always work, but it won’t cost you much to find out.
- Interesting! Taping the speaker could be a good move
Just cut one of the speaker wires.
- Lol wife killed that one
Yep, would work exact like you imagine it would. The other commenter saying potentiometer is right. You don't know what resistance will give you the volume you want, so save the time of doing it two or three times and just get the potentiometer front the start.

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