I might be blind or something or have a really poor memory, but I seem to recall that there used to be a \"mute\" functionality, and that I was able to bind this to a key?

If not, take this as a feature request :cheer:

it is a dcop call, bind \"dcop amarok player mute\" to a key, that\'s it ~

what about a shortcut so a key can be assigned

you can use khotkeys for this (can be found in kcontrol>regional settings>khotkeys)

I used what Alanceil said and made a dcop script. Mine mutes/unmutes the PCM (device index 4 for me), you can easily play with dcop to figure out which device for you. Here is the script. I then bound this script to my KDE menus for a Mute item I made. They key itself I\'ve xmodmap\'d to F24. Here is the script for a mute toggle via dcop:


#!/bin/bash
KMIXRESULT=`dcop kmix Mixer0 mute 4`
if [ ${KMIXRESULT}X = falseX ]; then
/usr/bin/dcop kmix Mixer0 setMute 4 1
else /usr/bin/dcop kmix Mixer0 setMute 4 0;
fi;
unset KMIXRESULT