[kde-linux] Previewing sound files.

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 28 December 2007 19:45:50 Bogus Zaba wrote:
> 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.
>
No, sorry, that's not what I mean at all.  I know it exists - because I use it 
on this laptop.  If I hover over a soundfile I hear the beginning of it.  
I've never stuck around to hear how much it will play, though :-)

The setting is somewhere in konqueror, but I've only ever found it by 
accident.  Someone in the kde team must know where it is :-)

Anne
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