[kde-linux] Previewing sound files.

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 21 Dec 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Friday 21 December 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 21 December 2007 12:27:52 Sergey Kulikov wrote:
> > > Can you play these files in Noatun? Does your kdemultimedia support
> > > .wav and .mp3 playback?
> >
> > I have no problem playing them back.  The problem is that I'm doing quite
> > a lot of sound editing just now, and the ability to preview a few seconds
> > of a sound file saves me a lot of time, seeking the one I want.  I have
> > it working on this laptop - I didn't have it at first, and I rediscovered
> > the setting by accident.  Sadly, I didn't note it down anywhere, and I
> > can't find it again.
> >
> > This is something I've used and lost several times over the last 5 years.
> > I'm positive it's in kcontrol somewhere, but I can't find it.
>
> It is probably a matter of the file size set as the maximum for files for
> which to create previews.
>
> By default it's quite low so that e.g. reading huge images to create
> previews does not slow down the file managment task, but sound files are
> usually bigger than this limit.
>
Hi, Kevin.  I don't think that is the reason.  This workstation and the laptop 
both have the same 2MB setting for preview file size, yet the laptop can 
preview a sound file of 42MB!

Anne
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