[PLUG] Lecture oriented mp3 player

[Patrick O'Connor]

Cozy is good. It's for audiobooks.


https://github.com/geigi/cozy


Patrick

---- On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:21:23 -0800. dick at dicksteffens.com 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