[vorbis-dev] ogg123 ^C changes

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Kenneth Arnold wrote:

> Is the general consensus in favor of Ctrl-C skipping links instead
> of files?

No.  I'd really like to veto this one.  File should be the basic audio unit
(some have used the term "track" in this discussion).  Chaining is handy if
you want to string several audio segments together, but you should treat the
finished product (conceptually) as one big segment.  If that's not what you
want, you shouldn't have chained the file.

That said, I'm not against being able to jump to chain boundaries as a special
case of the general process of *seeking*.  Being able to seek while playing a
stream is going to further complicate the ogg123 interface and should be
carefully considered.  But if you can seek, I can see why you might want to
seek directly to chaining points.


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Stan Seibert

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