speakup and audio with alsa also bitlbee and irssi

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Amixer works fine. But MPlayer by default is raising and lowering either 
the PCM or the Master volume, which causes problems b ecause that's the 
volume of everything. So getting them to work independantly is the 
million dollar question.
On 9/13/2012 2:31 AM, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Doesn't amixer work for you?]
>
> Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
>
>> 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,
>>
>> -- 
>> Take care,
>> Ty
>> http://tds-solutions.net
>> The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine:
>> http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud
>> He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.
>>
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-- 
Take care,
Ty
http://tds-solutions.net
The aspen project: a barebones light-weight mud engine:
http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.