Re: [orca-list] What is the state of audio recording on Lynnox using orca?

[Jeffery Mewtamer <mewtamer gmail com>]

I don't know how well it'll work with Orca in a terminal window, but
gst123 provides a very straightforward means of playing many audio and
video formats and provides a constantly updated current time/ total
time as the last line of it's terminal output.

There's also mpg123(for mp3 and probably related formats) and
ogg123(provided by the vorbis-tools package in in Debian, for ogg
vorbis, FLaC(requires the flac package in debian) and probably related
formats).

All three are just

xyz123 fileToPlay.ext

to play files, with spacebar to pause/unpause, no attempts to organize
a media library, and relatively minimal terminal output. Gst123 is
actually inspired by mpg123 and ogg123, using Gstreamer to provide
wide support with a minimal interface, and unlike mplayer or mpv, gst
doesn't require a flag for playing video files without a display
driver.

Granted, the seek controls in all three are limited to left and right
arrows for jumping in 10 second increments and up and down arrow for
jumping in 1 minute increments, so pausing at the exact moment you
want a timestamp to feed to sox for doing a cut may be a bit tricky.