[Fedora-music-list] Action items for the Audio spin

[Mark Knoop]

At 01:47 on 13 Apr 2012, Christopher R. Antila wrote:
>On 04/12/2012 04:12 AM, Mark Knoop wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Brendan Jones 
>>> <brendan.jones.it at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Agreed - native Jack support would be a plus (I think something
>>>> like audacious fits the bill here).
>>>> 
>>>> Brendan
>> 
>> Could I suggest alsaplayer?
>> 
>> http://www.alsaplayer.org/features.php
>> 
>
>Looks good, but... I'm thinking of Mac OS X, which has a feature where
>you can select a media file and press the space bar to preview it in a
>pop-out window. I have this sort of functionality in mind: a clickable
>"seek bar" with times, and buttons for rewind, play/pause, and
>forward. Nothing beyond that.
>
>If I'm going to get this, I'll probably have to write a new
>application myself at some point, or change an existing one.
>AlsaPlayer and Audacious just have too many features to use as I have
>in mind.
>
>On the other hand,
>A) not everybody wants to do what I want to do, and
>B) we need an audio player now, so AlsaPlayer looks like a good choice.
>
>Is anybody else interested in making an audio file player with JACK
>support that has basically no features, opens and starts playing in an
>instant, and can be easily (for users) integrated into a file browser?

I suspect it would not be tremendously difficult to write a new
interface to AlsaPlayer which would do what you describe. 

https://github.com/alsaplayer/alsaplayer/tree/master/interface

-- 
Mark Knoop