Script persistently lowering mplayer volume

Miati · 02-27-2015, 08:52 AM

I have a similar script as follows

Code:

(sleep 5m; echo "set_property volume 85 > "fifo_file")&

mplayer -volume 95 -quiet -slave -input file="fifo_file" song1 song2 song3

This makes the current song change volume to 85 after the 5 minute sleep period, but any songs after that revert to 95.

I want to keep it at volume 85 until the mplayer command completes but start at 95 until changed.

Is this possible?

dijetlo · 02-27-2015, 11:22 PM

Code:

(echo "set_property volume 95 > fifo_file)& (sleep 5m: echo "set_property volume 85)& mplayer -quiet -slave -input file="fifo_file" song1 song2 song3

Might work

Miati · 03-01-2015, 09:04 AM

It didn't, but thanks for the effort.

I decided to switch to having a lower volume and doing a once change up to create a similar effect to what I want.
I would not consider this solved though.

There should be a scriptable way to change mplayer's volume persistenly after starting it and not be a per-song basis.