On 1/17/25 11:21 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
On 1/17/25 06:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've had a couple of threads about my search for a usable mp3 player.
I'm referred to applications whose origin relate to listening to music
for entertainment.
Yes media players like Audacious and VLC *can* play lectures but *their*
original purpose is music.
The general response received is:
Why would music differ from a lecture audio file?
A simple search on audio players in Linux should be adequate.
Why would music differ from a lecture audio file?
That's not even based on an "apples to oranges" comparison.
It's more an "apple to Sherman tank" comparison.
Such mp3 players appear focused on a couple of hours of listening to
musical pieces each a few minutes long, perhaps by several artists.
I currently have a set of seven lectures on one general topic by one
speaker, occupying approximately nine hours. As the purpose of these
lectures is to convey knowledge I'd like to be able to take notes with
automatically generated time stamps so I could go back to the same
point of that lecture for review/clarification. I've some general
ideas on how VLC could be *coerced* to provide that. BUT it wasn't
intended to do so.
I'm looking for an mp3 player intended to convey information not
background entertainment.
Grok?
TIA
Have a look at https://sourceforge.net/projects/footswitch2/. It's
designed to work with a foot switch, but doesn't need one. There are on
screen buttons for play/pause, fast forward/reverse, etc. It uses VLC,
but you don't see any VLC screen features. I recently discovered this
program to handle my transcription work. Rolf, the fellow who maintains
it wrote it for his wife, who does transcription. One of the features he
includes is time stamps. In the "features" section of the website page,
is this note: Hot Key of timestamps, speaker names and phrases into your
document. I don't have a need for them in my transcription work, so I
haven't tried them. Rolf, is responsive. (See the Project Activity
section near the bottom of the website page.) Based on what you
describe, this program should work for you.
Looks very interesting. I'll have to convert footswitch2.pdf to
something readable { tri-focals + >80 = problems ;}
Thanks
