Hi, "1. Can I control the playback speed better than cmd-equals or cmd-minus? The jumps from these commands are pretty large." Here's what I've got. Very short jump forward or backward control + command + left and right arrows. Short backwards and forwards jump option + command + left and right arrows. Medium backwards and forwards jump shift + command + left and right arrows. Long backwards and forwards jump Option + shift + command + left or right arrows. The lengths of each jump are configurable in hotkey preferences. "2. Can I control the pitch of a song? For instance, a song in the key of G might need to be raised to the key of A for me to practice playing it. Is this doable, perhaps through a plugin? Does vlc even do plugins?"
In deed, VLC does plugins. Just one more reason why it beats the snot out of ITunes, Although there are a few third party hacks for that as well if you care. Unfortunately, I don't see any way to change the pitch of an audio stream. You could always request the feature, Or you could simply transpose it in audacity or Amadeus. "3. In preferences, I found it very hard to get anywhere as arrowing in the table auto-expanded every option, so I could never actually just arrow through the major categories to get an overview, let alone find anything I wanted. Is there a way of changing this?" Well, this is the way every table in mac OS behaves. I'm not sure what to tell you hear, except that if you know what you're looking for, you can always resort to the item chooser. And of course, some one already chimed in on how to set the file types. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf Introducing Ebony Consulting business card transcription service, starting at $0.45 per card or $35 per hundred cards. Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-07-26, at 3:22 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > Sorry for all the questions today, but when I use the mac for an while as I > have been doing since yesterday, I get curious about things. > So, vlc... > 1. Can I control the playback speed better than cmd-equals or cmd-minus? The > jumps from these commands are pretty large. > 2. Can I control the pitch of a song? For instance, a song in the key of G > might need to be raised to the key of A for me to practice playing it. Is > this doable, perhaps through a plugin? Does vlc even do plugins? > 3. In preferences, I found it very hard to get anywhere as arrowing in the > table auto-expanded every option, so I could never actually just arrow > through the major categories to get an overview, let alone find anything I > wanted. Is there a way of changing this? > 4. This isn't vlc specifically, but how can I set file associations? I want > mp3s, oggs, and other audio to open in vlc by default, but all my media is on > my windows partition. When I try to set vlc as default, I get the usual error > I'd get had i tried to write to that partition, and the preference is not > saved. Does OSX handle associations on a file-by-file basis, and is this why > I get that error? If not, how can I set vlc to handle media files? I saw > nothing about this in system preferences. > Thanks in advance! > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
