flipflip;211357 Wrote: > the need for "jumping" forward and backward in a stream is critical to > me. I listen to lots of podcasts (downloaded separately [1]) and audio > books (e.g. language courses). And in this case I need to skip > backwards a few seconds all the time to listen to a sentence I did not > understand again. And here the FW/RW which is available is not > suitable. > > So I wrote a small plugin that offers a function to skip forward or > backward a certain amount of time [2] and mapped that function to > buttons I don't need otherwise. This works great, apart from the > playtime display which gets out of sync and the inaccuracy of the > skipping, but that doesn't bother me. > > [2] http://oinkzwurgl.org/skipper
Have you looked at the Song Scanner plugin? Like lanierb, I've been using Song Scanner to move through longer recordings like podcasts and radio shows. One reason I mention this is that Song Scanner doesn't seem to cause problems with the playtime display. I think your skip forward/back sounds really good. That's something I've become accustomed to having for video recordings with my MythTV setup, and I think it'd be nice on the Squeezebox. While I've said before that I think the overloaded/modal button behavior is problematic, I wonder about an intelligent all-software (no map file edit) solution like a plugin that would provide two modes for Fwd/Rew: "jumping" seconds forward/back within a track; and "skipping" to the beginning/end of tracks (current behavior). Default behavior would be that "jumping" would require you to press some button on the remote like Now Playing and then within a second or so, press Fwd or Rew to jump. Subsequent Fwd/Rew presses (within the 1 second of the last Fwd/Rew/Now Playing press) would be interpreted as "jump". The plugin should allow users 1) the ability to reverse the behavior (i.e, treat plain Fwd/Rew as Jump, and require a Now Playing button press to get the Skip behavior that the buttons have out-of-the-box now) 2) the ability to have the plugin always treat Fwd/Rew as Jump if there's only one item in the playlist, since Skip only makes sense with multiple items in the playlist (my typical podcast usage; probably not as helpful for language lessons where you probably queue up multiple tracks) 3) the ability to specify how many seconds to jump, and allow different Fwd and Rew timings (normally I'd expect Fwd to jump more seconds than Rew) -Peter P.S. I don't use the built-in podcast support, either. I've been much happier setting up a third-party app to download selected podcasts to my Slimserver music directory. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36446 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
