On Jun 23, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
On Jun 23, 2007, at 2:59 PM, John Laudun wrote:
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.
Take iTunes and Quicksilver - add iTunes-QS-triggers (bound to a shortcut of your choice) and it should work. http://lifehacker.com/software/itunes/control-itunes-with- quicksilver-259373.php http://macapper.com/2007/05/09/how-to-control-itunes-with-quicksilver/
And after you set up this - use quicksilver for anything else…one of the mightiest (if not the mightiest) programs I've ever used
I oversaw the rewind part…that could be hard though - maybe there you will really need some applescript (if that'll work…i doubt it somehow) which you could bind to shortcuts via quicksilver or fastscript or something else
Niels