Any way to replay the last few seconds?

[Larry Alkoff]

Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Gary Steinert <gary.steinert at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday 24 October 2008 01:10:07 Larry Alkoff wrote:
>>> I have been looking in the documentation and this mailing list for a way
>>> to go back a few seconds in a song and replay from there.
>>>
>>> This feature is implemented in Banshee using control< and control> and
>>> goes back (and forward) 2 seconds each time ctl< is pressed.  So by
>>> pressing that key twice I can go back 4 seconds, etc.  But I want Amarok
>>> to be my main player <g>.
>>>
>>> It's very handy when learning my Spanish lessons to go back a few
>>> seconds to hear the phrase again.
>>>
>>> Is there any way to implement this (perhaps a script) in 1.4 or possibly
>>> later in 2?
>> I am working on a feature that allows you to replay a certain amount of the
>> track when resuming from pausing. For example, if you pause a track at
>> 01:13 it could resume at 01:11. Unfortunately it wont make 2.0 but I'm
>> hoping to get it in for 2.1.
> 
> To be honest with you, this is the kind of highly specialized
> micro-feature that we would never allow into Amarok proper. It's of
> use only to a very small minority of users, and would bloat Amarok for
> the rest of us.
> 
> However, implementing this as an Amarok 2 script and releasing it on
> kde-apps.org would be perfectly fine and welcome :)
> 


Hello Mark.

Looking at the "The DCOP Interface" section in the Help file in Amarok,
I notice a DCOP call called 'seekRelative(int 1).

The explanation is "Seek to a position relative to the current current 
track position".

I wonder if this function could be used to add 2 functions to Amarok:
%DCOP amarok player seekRelative(-2)
and
%DCOP amarok player seekRelative(2)
to go back and forth in the music file being played.

I don't know much about DCOP yet, but would be willing to learn if you 
told me this might be feasible.

The absolute best would be if I could remap the arrow keys to use these 
functions instead of seeking back and forth 10 seconds as they do now.
Ten seconds is much too long for learning a language.

Larry