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 :)
> 

Thanks for your honest reply Mark.
Since Amarok already changes + and - 5 seconds with the arrow keys,
all that would be necessary would be to find the location where the "5" 
value is stored in the binary.  I had hoped the value would be in 
amarokrc but could not find it.

Larry