[kde-linux] Previewing sound files.

[dick]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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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Dick