the CLI mplayer shows the time. You can hop forward or backward in 10 seconds, 1 minute, 10 minute increments with keys. pause, resume, etc.
-- Russell Senior [email protected] On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> 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 > > >
