Any way to replay the last few seconds?

[Larry Alkoff]

Gary Steinert wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2008 19:34:14 Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> 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
>>
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> 
> It may be possible to introduce a setting which controls the length of the 
> seek with the arrow keys, to allow you to change the 10 seconds to, say, 2 
> or 3. This may be deemed, however, to add unnecessary bulk to Amarok for 
> what is really a more specialised feature. I'll leave that decision up to the 
> devs that have been around a bit longer than I have.
> 
> Either way, I am currently working on a script that will seek backwards in the 
> currently playing track when the player is paused. Hopefully it will be 
> available on kde-apps in the next week or so. This may be what you are 
> looking for :)
> 
> Gary
>

Gary I'm very interested in the script you are working on.
It is DCOP (no longer used I hear) or dbus (whatever that is) or just 
good old Linux scripting (I'm good at that)?.

Best of luck to you.

Larry