speakup and audio with alsa also bitlbee and irssi

[Rob Hudson]

I set it up so that mplayer uses my USB sound card to get around this. Got 
tired of volume up and down all over the place.
In your ~/.mplayer//config add this line for a different audio device:
ao=alsa:device=hw=1

Or whatever number your other card is. Doesn't work if you have pulse I 
don't think.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: speakup and audio with alsa also bitlbee and irssi


>I have MPlayer configured to play audio through Softvol, and I too 
>experience
> this. If I play file1.ogg and decide to lower its volume, this change will 
> take
> effect only while file1.ogg is playing. As soon as file2.ogg begins 
> playing,
> volume is back up to whatever the current amixer-configured setting is. 
> The only
> way I know of to mitigate this is to use Pulseaudio to keep 
> program-specific
> volume changes persistent, during the lifetime of the process. However, 
> this
> does introduce its own set of problems, such as lots of audio
> latency/artifacts/interrupt issues last I used it.
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:59:34AM -0400, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
>> If I want to change the volume, I just go to another window and use
>> amixer.
>>
>> Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I use 0 and 9 to change the volume. When I do it changes the volume on
>> > everything. Did you perhaps change anything?
>> > On 9/13/2012 9:10 AM, covici at ccs.covici.com wrote:
>> > > mplayer is not doing that here, very strange.
>> > >
>> > > Littlefield, Tyler <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> 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.
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>> > 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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>> you spend it?
>>
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>>          covici at ccs.covici.com
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