[TxMt] Commanding an outside app

[John Laudun]

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