Re: [pygame] Volume control with mixer.music.set_volume affected by xmms

[Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aumix works well...

man aumix

To set the main volume to 78
aumix -v 78

You can also query the main volume:
aumix -v q

Cheer.


On 9/14/05, Srinath Avadhanula <srinathava@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is again in relationship to a snooze program which I've
> written.  I have it working well now thanks to help from here.
> However, there is a (hopefully) small problem:
> 
> In my snooze program, I set the volume at which things will be
> played using the mixer.music.set_volume() function. However, if
> someone on the same machine uses xmms (the player) and changes
> the volume in that application, the next time I call
> mixer.music.set_volume() with the same number and play the same
> piece, the actual volume at which the music plays differs.
> 
> I guess that xmms actually affects some system level volume which
> comes after the volume which mixer.music.set_volume() sets. This
> could be a problem if I use xmms at a high volume and then the
> snooze program wakes me up with some LOUD sounds the next morning
> :) Is there some way in which I can enforce a given volume
> entirely from within pygame. I don't mind a solution which needs
> some operating level command.
> 
> My OS is the latest Kubuntu release (installed it only a few days
> ago).
> 
> Thank you,
> Regards
> --
> Srinath Avadhanula
>