On Jun 24, 2007, at 07:00 , textmate-request@lists.macromates.com wrote:

On Jun 23, 2007, at 9:01 AM, John Laudun wrote:

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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.

Okay, I created three commands which should get you started. I put these in a bundle together which is attached. You'll probably want to change the key bindings.

⇧F1 Start Current Movie - Plays the frontmost window in Quicktime Player after rewinding it by two seconds. ⇧F2 Stop Current Movie - Stops all movies in Quicktime Player. ⇧F3 Rewind Current Movie - Rewinds the frontmost window in Quicktime Player to the beginning.

So just open your MP3 in Quicktime Player and away you go. BTW, I figured out the scripts by looking here:

Those are brilliant and work quite well.

And, yes, I should have read up more on Applescripting Quicktime, but I did not know about using osascript within TextMate.

Many, many thanks!

john