Regarding new feature requests for trplayer.

[robb monn]

Matt --

Great work as always on this project.  What I would love, more than anything would
be a method by which trplayer could resume play in a stream.  I hope I have not
missed a method by which to do this that is already in place.  Mention of a status
display made me come back to this idea.  What I would like is STOUT of some sort
that reports what minute:second a session was at when it stopped.  A good compliment
to this would be a way to invoke trplayer with a minute and second at whch to start.

I ask after this feature because as realsever sites become more bogged down I find
sessions loose thier connection more often.  I tend to listen to hour long programs,
which means I must start over again listening if I use trplayer, which I love to
use.

As far as status outputs, I can make no suggestion as to a proper output method for
the visually impaired, but scp's status out is very nice and compact on a single
line:

file.txt            45% |********************                          | 1.4MB

this is constatnly updated as the copy progresses.  Could trplayer's look like:

This American Life Episode 145 | 38:45/59:50 | *********************         |

Again, I know nothing about how braile displays and the like respond to such a
format.  A very compact and less 'decorated' scheme might go like this:

This American Life with Ira Glass, Episode 145                      59:50
38:45

where the first line is never updated and the second jsut reports the current
status.


Another methos might be to make a configurable output.  Where the app reads a
configuration file and outputs based on that.  That might best serve a wide variety
of needs.  A file could take a variety of variables and allow the user to arrange
them as they need.

Thanks again for this program!



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