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skwire:
Using a small player as the default mp3 file-opener could be an answer.-tomos (March 14, 2013, 06:50 PM)
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I use my own Looper for this purpose (shameless plug).

goldencut:
What Dopus does sounds like the typical preview function some Linux file managers do - they play the audio while you hover your pointer over the file. Quite convenient.
But wondering would this be a stumbling block in explorer as well - IIUC you want it to integrate directly with explorer initially, but you then want it to stick to that folder - and ignore whatever you're now doing in explorer...
-tomos (March 15, 2013, 11:07 AM)
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Aforementioned players 1by1 and Resonic both do this quite elegantly. They keep playing the file while you browse around.

If the player I envisioned had a separate back-end for playback then it would play peacefully the folder or track list it was fed by the front-end as the user would browse around in the explorer, until it would be interrupted by new track list from front-end.

I tried Looper and I really like the simplicity and clarity of its design, but it was clearly made for something else.
But... it made me wonder if it would be possible to write a small BASS-based player that actually had no visible interface (or maybe just a tray icon). It could accept a file or list of files or a folder as a track list and play that until it was executed again with new file (or list or folder) OR with a command line switch to go to previous or next file (-p, -n etc) in the active track list, to pause or to stop (=exit). It should be capable of creating a simple Windows .lnk file which would point to the currently playing file in the file system. It should delete the shortcut file after it stops playing that file. And that would be it - with this small program it would be already possible to do something I envisioned.

BR,
G.

skwire:
@goldencut: Came across this today:

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/04/windows/mp3/media-players/free-mp3-player-to-play-songs-in-windows-explorer-windows-play.html

http://avi-win-tips.blogspot.ro/2013/02/windows-play-10.html

Might be worth contacting the developer to see if your wishes can be implemented.

Curt:
@goldencut: Came across this today: http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/04/windows/mp3/media-players/free-mp3-player-to-play-songs-in-windows-explorer-windows-play.html -skwire (May 10, 2013, 09:36 AM)
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-I never got that mp3 player to do any other thing than to tell me, try mp3 "instead"...



I would like to know if anyone can make it work.

skwire:
Doh, sorry.  I didn't personally test it.   :-[

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