The short of it is that I would like to use Textmate to do some transcription work. I have never been entirely happy with Transcriva, which I paid for, and while the power and convenience of Scrivener are appealing, I don't really want to buy yet another application for this purpose. I own, use, and love TextMate, and I have been very impressed with the things like the ScreenMate bundle.
Now, I know I could write an AppleScript -- okay, I've never been any good with AS, but it's there -- I was just hoping that I could not and thus be able to work entirely within TextMate. All I need is a keystroke, or perhaps two, that would start and stop playback of an MP3 file. (I assume I would have to do this through QuickTime, but if there's a simpler command-line tool that could do this, that would be fine with me.) The only wrinkle I would like to add would be to be able to set an "auto-rewind" to the START or STOP command so that when playback commenced again it would start X seconds backwards from where it stopped. Setting this X in a config file of some kind would be fine with me.
I'm a command creation newb, so any fingers pointed in the right direction would be appreciated.
john