* Something like this; respectively!?: [[shell:mplayer -ss 00:03:21 -endpos 00:06:54 ~/some_podcast.mp3 &]]
[[shell:mplayer -ss 00:03:21 ~/some_podcast.mp3 &]] [[shell:mplayer ~/some_podcast.mp3 &]] VLC works great for this too. [[file:...] works too of course, but you have to make a "file association" (or like mentioned: 'org-file-apps') to mplayer or emacs OrgMode will just open the file in a buffer. Unclear about statement about earlier posts: "I would like to explicitly not allow..." P.S. Thanks for the link to BONGO--the EMACS "buffer media player". I made my own "buffer media player" and have used it for many years; but, BONGO.el is wayly kuul too! On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Michael Brand <michael.ch.br...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Paul > > Thank you very much for sharing this, I will benefit a lot and the > interactivity from within Emacs seems extremely useful. My recent > searches for how to play an Org link to an audio file didn't find any > result and I was about to work out something with mpg123. I planned to > define a new link type for this but your solution with "file:" looks > to me more like it should be and is also backwards compatible with > links already made with "file:". > > And even better if "file:" could also cover my requirement to have an > optional link search part that lets the player start and stop at a > specified time. Let me define the format like this: > - start to play in file at 00:03:21, stop at 00:06:54: > [[file:some_podcast.mp3::00:03:21-00:06:54]] > - start to play in file at 00:03:21, play until end of file: > [[file:some_podcast.mp3::00:03:21]] > - play the whole file: > [[file:some_podcast.mp3]] > > I would like to explicitly not allow [[file:some_podcast.mp3::03:21]] > as a shorter option with MM:SS because I would like to see XX:XX being > reserved for HH:MM without exception in Org. There was a recent > discussion covering this in the context of time calculation: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/39487/focus=39840 > > Michael > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 23:55, Paul Sexton <psex...@xnet.co.nz> wrote: > > I have spent a few hours figuring this out so I thought I would post it > for > > the benefit of others. > > > > I am learning a language, and wanted to include hyperlinks to audio files > > within my org document, and be able to play each file by clicking on the > > link. > > > > I eventually discovered the variable 'org-file-apps' which allows you to > > associate particular applications with particular file types. > > > > I am using Bongo (https://github.com/dbrock/bongo) as the media player. > > EMMS is another actively developed media player, but setup looked too > > complicated at first glance. >
