speakup and audio with alsa also bitlbee and irssi

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Hello all:
I had a few questions:
first, I was using mplayer, and the only solution I've seen was one 
Chris Brannon pointed out, which was to use softvol. I've also seen it 
mentioned in numerous places on Google. Problem is, softvol is a 
software volume control, and when you change the volume of say track 1, 
it puts track2 right back up at the max volume. Are there other 
players/ways to make mplayer only change alsa so that it'll keep it's 
volume through the entire song?

Also, I want to use Bitlbee for my messengers. Has anyone written a 
script that just uses events to play sounds? contact signs on, new query 
opened, new message received etc? I know you can trigger on events, but 
I'm not sure how to trigger on specific events from within a specific 
connection, like bitlbee for example.
Thanks,

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Ty
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