I have searched pretty hard and I apologize if I missed the info but does amarok have a dcop call to shutdown itself

I use kalarm to call a script that starts amarok and very slowly fades the music in the morning to wake up to(it disables the replaygain at the beginning and enables the replaygain at the end). I would like to be able to call another script with kalarm to shutdown amarok.
Right now I am using code #killall amarokapp
but this seems to some times cause problems on start up and you can sort of tell this is not the best way to shutdown amarok as use dont have that nice fade out at the end .
Thanks for your time

I'm not sure if any of these will give the desired effect but you can get a list of different signals you can use with killall using killall -l. Perhaps killall -s SEGV amarokapp will work. Anyway you can mess around with the different signals and see if any work.
HTH.

Hmm well I played around a little bit with the signals but I really didnt get the desired result.
I will try again with some of the less aggressive signals. Nonetheless amarok does seem to shutdown a little differently from other apps I have noticed. It has a nice little fade out of the music b4 it closes.Maybe I could get a clue by running it in a console. Still if anyone has a definitive answer that would be helpful as a post over in the amarok forum doesnt seem to be doing any good.

Hmm this looks promising. I don't actually have amarok to test this but I found this http://docs.kde.org/development/en/e...e-options.html
maybe you can use amarok -s to stop the track normally and then kill amarok.
HTH.

answering my own question for thread completeness
Here is the script I use to close amarok the info was provided to me in the amarok forum I wish I could remember who to credit them sorry
#!/bin/bash
dcop amarok player stop
sleep 5
dcop amarok MainApplication-Interface quit
pkill amarok
exit