[kde-linux] Previewing sound files.

[Bogus Zaba]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.
>>>       
Snip...
>>>       
>> 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

Anne -

I think it depends what you want from a ¨Preview¨ function. For me, 
graphics files (provided they conform to the
size limits as specified above) appear in a preview tool-tip style 
window when you hover over the filename in Konqueror. Sounds files never 
do that, but if you right-click you can select ¨Preview¨ from the 
context menu and it will  take over the Konq window, give you the usual 
controls and you can play / pause etc. I guess this is not very 
different from just playing it, so you probably want the ¨tooltip¨ type 
fucntionality working. Never seen this happen for a sound file.

Bogus