[LAU] CLI audioplayer that'll fadeout on request

[Julien Claassen]

Hello Atte!
   If you can redirect I/O from the player STDIN/STDOUT you can use mplayer. In 
its standard config 9/0 are decrease/incrase volume. Of course they have to 
pbe pressed several times. But the steps are either preconfigured or 
user-customiseable, so youwill know how many times they need to be pressed to 
lower volume to 0. then of course you can send mplayer q to quit.
   Another alternative might be ecasound. Ecasound has several controllers. You 
can use a MIDI-controller, so you could use 1. a realtime MIDI controller, or 
possible something python specific. You can configure Ecasound's 
midi-inputdevice via the commandline. Ecasound also has the ECI (Ecasound 
Control Interface), which can be used to send commands in realtime. Nama uses 
it, as well as some other tools. then there's the netECI, allowing you to 
control Ecasound via a simple UDP port. So anything telnet compatible can 
control it.
   Then of course there's csound, whic is a little less cooked, but it has 
direct pythong support and I'm sure you can write an instrument (orchestra 
file0, that does exactly what youneed, usig realtime input. I'm not sure 
whether csound can be controlled by the computer keyboard, but it also has MID 
support and OSC. Perhaps you can include some python code to read the computer 
keyboard.
   I hope some of this may be of help to you.
   Kindly yours
           Julien

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