Bug 205422

Summary:	Small sound file preview / playback on middle-click
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, nate, trish
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dotan Cohen 2009-08-28 00:06:27 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I have many voice notes recorded with a mobile phone: wav files between 2 and 30 seconds in length. There is no comfortable way to browse and organize the notes, and listen to them too. Amarok can play the notes, and Dolphin can organize them, but there is no application to do both.

It would be nice if a middle click on a sound file would play a preview of the sound file, say the first 30 seconds or until the user moves the mouse off the icon.

Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-08-28 01:34:31 UTC

You can use the audio preview from the information panel. I think this is a worksforme, I imagine you agree :-)

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2009-08-28 01:44:33 UTC

I don't agree! With the sidebar preview, the user needs to move the mouse all over the place: select the file, then weave around other files (careful not to hover!) until you get there, the press tiny 16*16 pixel Play button. Same story for each file. It would be much faster and easier if the user could preview on middle click.

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2009-09-17 23:51:04 UTC

Related bug, actually probably a better solution:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207729

Comment 4 Patricia Fraser 2010-05-06 21:11:47 UTC

I liked the audio preview function that was available in Konq in KDE3.5 and earlier. That functionality let me hear just the first few notes of an audio file, simply by hovering the mouse cursor over the file. Could we have that functionality back, without buttons or extra messing about? It played in an embedded part, so it wasn't necessary to have an extra (perhaps unwanted) app start up, or click anything.

Comment 5 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:21:36 UTC

Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2017-08-18 17:20:20 UTC

Let's dupe this to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207729, since the reporter thinks that's a better solution.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207729 ***

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2017-09-03 02:21:19 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 378613 ***