Audio bookmark/cue feature
Ian Malone
ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Sat Jun 25 11:29:20 UTC 2005
Scott Talbot wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> My hardware mp3 player has a feature where
>> you press a button during play to mark the
>> start of a section, press it a second time
>> to mark the end and then that clip gets
>> repeated until you tell it otherwise. It's
>> quite useful for language courses. Does
>> anyone know of a Linux audio player with a
>> similar feature?
>> I know about the mp3cue plugin for XMMS; but
>> it's really for defining sub-tracks once,
>> rather than picking them "on the go."
> It's a bit of overkill, but Audacity will do that
Thanks, I'd forgotten about Audacity. I also
found an XMMS plugin called RepeatIt which does
roughly what I want. It had occurred that it
would be fairly trivial to write a plugin that
does exactly what I want, but I need a player
that allows plugins to receive keypresses
from the main window.
Just to define the problem a little further:
Audacity doesn't support playlists, its selection
controls are good but I'm looking for a simpler
"single button cycles" interface. RepeatIt does
roughly what I want, but XMMS plugins presenting
any kind of UI need to have a seperate window.
It also uses three buttons rather than a single
button cycle and for some reason blocks the sound
card if it runs to the next track. To be honest
it's under 800 lines of code, so I could fix
those last two, but I don't see any way of
overcoming the seperate window requirement in
XMMS.
--
imalone
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