[linux-audio-dev] player suggestion

[Juhana Sadeharju]

Hello.

After years of waiting, AlsaPlayer succeeded to compile.
Here is a report. I post here so that authors of other
players can take the hints.

Given multiple files, I executed the following:
  alsaplayer *wav
All files are played ok, yes. But when one hits (|<)
button the player skips two files back and plays only
the two last files.

Should it skip to the begin of the last file? Or to the
begin of the file list? Not something in between.

I also suggest a mode in which the play slider represents
the all files concatenated together:

  o----file1---o----file2----o----file3----o

That way one has easier access to all files. The mode would
be specially good if one has tens of small sound samples.

Also: If I first press <stop>, then why (|<) starts
the playing? I just want move to the begin and then play
later. So, my suggestion:
 If player is playing and one presses (|<), it continues playing.
 If player is not playing and one presses (|<), it only skips to
   the begin.

Further: The playing stops at the end of file, making it
impossible to continue scrubbing and speeding infinitely. The
player should just stay at the end at the play state. Likewise
when playing in reverse direction: player should not go to the
stop state at the begin.

More: The player played the file and stopped. I moved the play
slider to middle and started the play: the player started
playing at the begin, not where the play slider was at.

Neverending: The playing has been stopped and the play slider
is at the begin. I try grab and move the play slider, but
nothing happens. I should be able to move the play slider
at any point and start playing there. Now playing can start
only at the begin.

Infinity: After speeding backwards to the begin, the player stopped.
Then by pressing play button, I got the following errors and
nothing was played:
  an ERROR occured or EOF (10793).

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Given that AlsaPlayer has been developed for years now, why
I found so many problems? Most of the problems are not technical,
but artistic.

I have alsaplayer 0.99.76.

Regards,
Juhana