I'm running Windows XP and I'm using winamp to listen to internet radio stations. Occasionally, an annoying commercial will come on. I would like to write a Python program that, when run, will, in essence, push on winamp's mute button. Then, after say 20 seconds, it will push the mute button again to restore the sound. Is such a thing possible?
Yes - IIRC WinAmp supports some "global" Windows messages that any app can send to make WinAmp do different things. Don't know if there's a "mute" command, but at the very leasy you could control the volume. You'd have to read their SDK and then use something like ctypes to fire the Windows message - very doable.
If that doesn't do what you want, then you could go the more hacky route and grab the WinAmp window and fire a button click in the precise location. Something like AutoIt (which is controllable via Python) could work as well.
Another route would be to just mute all audio in the system for 20 seconds - that might be the easiest approach of all. Again, ctypes is your friend - figure out what APIs you'd need to call and people here can help you come up with the Python code to call those APIs.
-Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
