[mythtv-users] Best way to listen to long spoken-word audio files

[Yan Seiner]

John Veness wrote:
> Thanks for replies so far. That's good to know that MythMusic can (or 
> maybe soon will be able to) remember the position within a track upon exit.
>
> As with other posters, though, I don't think that MythMusic is the right 
> tool for this job, even though these files happen to be mp3s. MythMusic 
> controls are designed for skipping from one track to another, which 
> makes sense with 3 minute music tracks, but not half-hour audio tracks 
> when really we might want to fast-forward/rewind *within* the mp3.
>
> In my case the mp3s are episodes of various radio series, and MythVideo 
> (in directory browse mode) would be a better fit, both in the browser to 
> select an episode, and the controls available while playing.
>
> Do any devs know if there's any chance of the MythVideo Internal player 
> handling pure audio files, rather than A-V files? Would it be a hard job 
> to get it to support them?
>   

Well, you could transcode them into avi with a [empty|random 
swirling|cool sound related] video track.

--Yan