[LAU] sample preview program?

[david]

Bernardo Barros wrote:
> looks interesting, but if you hit mplayer then you get out of mc,
> right?

I don't believe so. When you exit from mplayer, you return to the MC 
shell still running MC. MC fires off the selected file viewer in a subshell.

I know I routinely start MC, then run a shell script I codged together 
from one I found on the internet that generates a playlist from my music 
collection and proceeds to start playing it in random order using 
mplayer. When I quit from mplayer, I'm back at MC ...

> Inside emacs you don't have to leave dired mode. Yeah, but
> mplayer can read more file formats.

But I always thought emacs was a complete operating system unto itself! ;-)

> 2010/7/28, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>:
>> Bernardo Barros wrote:
>>> 2010/7/26, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200 at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of a simple application for previewing samples?
>>>> Something that lists all supported audio files in a given directory,
>>>> that you can click once and hear the sample?  jack support would be
>>>> necessary.  I've searched the archives and found this question asked
>>>> before, but I wasn't able to find an answer.  Any pointers or
>>>> suggestions would be very welcome.
>>> If you have Emacs and Timidity you can do this with the dired mode in
>>> Emacs. "M-x dired" then you can browse you files. If you hit "! play"
>>> will play it. (maybe there is another shortcut and/or you can even set
>>> your own)
>> If you use Midnight Commander, I believe you can set it to play media
>> files using mplayer. Mplayer has keyboard commands, has a command line
>> option instructing it to start at a particular point in the media file.
>> Or you could script this kind of stuff around mplayer - have scripts for
>> the various options.

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