Re: [LAU] sample preview program?

If you use KDE, the dolphin file-browser lets you preview any files you select. Music files have a "previewer" that will allow you to listen to any format recognized as audio, and optionally using whatever "nonfree" plugins you might have installed for decompressing, for example MP3. See http://everyjoe.com/technology/dolphin-file-manager/ for a picture. If you setup KDE's System Settings->Computer Administration->Multimedia , you can set it up so that "Music" applications will send the audio to a specified soundcard, but you can also give priority to "Jack Audio Connection Kit" instead of a specific soundcard, and then it will always send music via Jack. This can be set on a per-task basis so that you can have VOIP always go to a USB headset, and music always through jack, and video sound through something else... If browsing MIDI files, one of these days, kmid2 will be able to use kpart come up embedded in dolphin to allow it to preview MIDI files directly, but until then, clicking MIDI would launch kmid2 if you had that installed. ( https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241220 )