Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 12:29 PM +0100 6/25/05, Ian Malone wrote:
>> ...but I don't see any way of overcoming the seperate window >> requirement in XMMS.
> I know /nothing/ about Audacity, but many plugin systems allow working
> with the current selection; could the plugin just repeat the selection > if there is one, and put up a window otherwise?
Audacity is a wave editor, capable of looping/playing a selection mainly for preview purposes. I found it very useful when ripping from audio tape. There's no need for a plugin to handle selections but, because it's an editor rather than a player, selection is geared towards editing (similarly there are no playlists). It supports plugins for editing waveforms.
XMMS on the other hand has a plugin called RepeatIt which does pretty much exactly what you said (the window only needs to be open to toggle repeat or to change its bounds), and almost exactly what I want. I'm really just being a bit picky; I want a plugin that can very conveniently let me define a loop for a while then break out of it, as this is quite useful for language study, and excess windows annoy me. It seems that adding something directly to a player UI via a plugin is a very rare ability. At the moment I'm looking at noatun, which has some very lightweight UIs, including one called `Excellent' that could probably be easily modified.
-- imalone
