solution was Re: speakup and audio with alsa also bitlbee and irssi

[Littlefield, Tyler]

Everyone kept mentioning mplayer2, but i figured it was just another 
lame fork.
It appears to be way more responsive, and if you do softvol=1 in your 
mplayer config, it sticks across files.
Enjoy!
On 9/13/2012 1:07 PM, Rob Hudson wrote:
> 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
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>>> > >>>> 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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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.