[LAU] sample preview program?

[Bernardo Barros]

looks interesting, but if you hit mplayer then you get out of mc,
right? Inside emacs you don't have to leave dired mode. Yeah, but
mplayer can read more file formats.

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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