Small script to mute your volume for a small amount of time and then unmuting. Useful for beating Spotify ads.

gistfile1.py

import time
import subprocess
import re

start_time = int(time.time())


cmd = ['amixer', 'get', 'Master']

proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

x = proc.communicate()

vol = int(re.findall(r'\[(\d?\d)\%\]', x[0])[0])

cmd = ['amixer', 'set', 'Master', '0']

proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

time.sleep(15)

cmd = ['amixer', 'set', 'Master', str(vol)+'%', 'unmute']

proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

works with amixer (only tested on ubuntu/mint)

Oh and you'll need this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/40022/is-there-a-keyboard-shortcut-for-minimizing-all-windows-except-the-active-one-p