Gday, Might be getting a little too wild-west, but I've also had success adding functions to mpv with lua-scipts. Eg. pressing a key during playback will add a timestamp in a file - this has been useful for arbitrarily cutting up long audio files - using the timestamp file as input into another utility. Cheers John Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 at 8:22 AM, Adam Sampson <ats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Kevin Zembower kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > Can anyone suggest a minimal audio player, that I could keep on top of > > the document that I'm taking notes on, and could be easily controlled > > and display the current location in the audio file? > > > I use mpv running in a terminal window for this. It'll play pretty much > any format, and it's easily controllable with the keyboard. You can also > configure custom keybindings to jump backward/forward by different > amounts, or specify a starting position with a command-line argument, > both of which are useful for transcription. > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list -- linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to linux-audio-user-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx