volume control of an speaker

thankyou crossroads!

i,will check the digital potentiometeers deapply, but in the overview, i've found that its control "only by up and down signals (im searhing for a component that convert direcctly the pwm that i get from arduino, to control the "digital potentiometer" but just cant findit... =( , and i don't complexing a lot the code. plus the are hardly find here in chile, i have not much time for this time.
i think that i will use an 8 chanels demultiplexer, that only shicthes, but this way i can save time to bring all sistem togeder and get the best interacctions with the users...

thankyou!!!