AlienBBC V0.92 problem (Mandrake 10.1) - N.B. long email

[Bruce Tucker]

KDF and Richard.
Thanks for the references. I had hoped that someone had written a plugin for
this. I just tried it out and it works very nicely for me. And a big
thanks to Kevin Deane-Freeman for his work! It's appreciated.
Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: "kdf" <slim-mail (AT) deane-freeman (DOT) com>
To: "Slim Devices Discussion" <discuss (AT) lists (DOT) slimdevices.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 1:40 PM
Subject: [slim] Fast Forwarding within a file


> Quoting Bruce Tucker <tuckerb2 (AT) adelphia (DOT) net>:
>
>> I often record live radio streams for later playback. Is there a
>> built-in
>> function or plugin that I'm unaware of that allows you to Fast Forward
>> within a file?
>> Bruce
>>
> There is a song scanner plugin available here:
> http://www.deane-freeman.com/slimserver/
>
> It allows you to navigate to the plugin while playing a long track, you
> then
> have a BAR graph on the player display that represents 100% of the track
> length. UP and DOWN arrows adjust the position within the file, and you
> can
> see the exact time index on line 1. leaving the plugin by pressing LEFT
> will
> move the current song to that position.
>
> It works with long MP3 or WAV files, but suffers the same limits when it
> comes
> to transcoded formats. The time index is not something that the server
> has
> available when sourcing from the external trancoding processes, so the
> scanning
> does not work.
>
> -kdf
>

[kdf]

Quoting Bruce Tucker <tuckerb2 (AT) adelphia (DOT) net>:

> KDF and Richard.
> Thanks for the references. I had hoped that someone had written a plugin for
> this. I just tried it out and it works very nicely for me. And a big
> thanks to Kevin Deane-Freeman for his work! It's appreciated.
> Bruce

you are welcome. glad you have found it useful
-kdf