Improve preview playback

[mifi]

For me this shortcut just starts playing the current segment from the beginning.

Maybe I didn't explain clear enough, but I would need it to work this way:

I have: (The || is playhead)

<-------SEG1----||---> <----- EMPTY space -----> <-------SEG2------->

Currently, when pressing rainbow button, or "Loop beginning and end of current segment", it goes to the beginning of SEG1, plays whole SEG1 and jumps over EMPTY space and goes to SEG2 (as expected).

But I need a shortcut (or option to make play/pause work this way), that would start playing where the "||" (playhead) is (not particularly from end, but wherever I put it and start from that position), and jump to the SEG2 (like the rainbow button does).

Most importantly, that it wouldn't start from the beginning of current segment, but start from wherever the playhead currently is.

Thanks for your replies! 🙂

Originally posted by @rRobis in #1581 (reply in thread)

[slrslr]

For me this shortcut just starts playing the current segment from the beginning.

For me 3.54.0 Linux AppImage behave other way than yours. It preview from first segment (not from one i am at) and can not be fast forwarded needing to long wait until it end up being at positions of interest. If segments are many minutes long, it would be too boring to wait.

Steps to reproduce: I doubleclick last segment in the right sidebar (list of segments) to jump to it, click preview button. It plays from first segment, not from selected one.
Video showing how i do it.
3.54.0 Linux AppImage (Bug report detail)

[rRobis]

Yes you're right, i tested only the first segment, that's why it seemed that it starts from current one. I tried, and it behave just like you showed.

[mifi]

yes. this is how the feature was implemented in v1 (working as intented). but I agree it also makes sense to be able to start from the current segment so it will be implemented as a future enhancement

[rRobis]

Do you mean, it will start from the beginning of the current segment, or from the play head position?

[mifi]

it will start from the first segment (segment number 1) according to the right side segment list