[Sunhelp] control audio gain programically?

[David Rouse]

>> As a way to learn perl and my sparc10 I'm writing a little mp3 'jukebox.'
>> One of the features I'd like to have is the ability to control the audio
>> gain (volume) through a program, instead of handling the control in
>> audiocontrol manually.
>> 
>> It would be nice to associate volume levels with, say, different times of
>> the day, cgi input or rules for individual songs or music directories. Or
>> even remote control -- X10?
>> 
>> Is such a thing possible, and where should I look to find out how to do
it?
>
>   Read the man page.  There are command-line switches for it.
>

audioplay has a -v switch, but that only applies to the file it is playing,
and I'll be using mpg123 in remote mode. The others - audiocontrol and
audiotool have listings like [ generic-tool-arguments ].

I guess I need to be learning about ToolTalk, where's a good starting place
for that?

drouse