Cozy is good. It's for audiobooks.
https://github.com/geigi/cozy Patrick ---- On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:21:23 -0800. [email protected] 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/[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. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens
