Old 01-27-2017, 11:12 AM   #1
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Could anyone implement a new Item Preview action which is missing from Reaper in my opinion?:

Item: preview *selected area* of item under mouse cursor
Item: preview *selected area* of item under mouse cursor (through track)

Means the preview should start from the beginning of the selection and cycle through the selection

We only have preview selected items (from the beginning) and starting from mouse position...

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Old 01-27-2017, 11:40 AM   #2
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The SWS extension has a fantastic set of these in actions window once installed. I think it wasthe user "breeder" who added them so search actions window for those.

The link is here http://www.sws-extension.org

It's so worth installing it anyway as it's got so many powerful functions in it.
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"SWS/BR: Preview media item under mouse"
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Old 01-27-2017, 02:51 PM   #4
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That's the one! Thanks.

There are loads of options for those actions too and it will do both of what you've asked for
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Old 02-02-2017, 06:33 AM   #5
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That's the one! Thanks.

There are loads of options for those actions too and it will do both of what you've asked for
Yep. It doesn't do what I'm searching for. It preview the item starting from the beginning of it and going through until the end (unless you stop it before).

Another action allows to start "..from mouse cursor.."

I'm asking a different thing: to preview only the portion of an item which is inside the SELECTION boundaries (and cycle through it). We might call it "preview selected item respecting selection". this action doesn't exist.

it's just a small addition to the already wonderful set of ...preview item... actions

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it's just a small addition to the already wonderful set of ...preview item... actions
All the actions are from SWS and its development is paused for a while, that's why we won't see these new actions. Live with it.

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All the actions are from SWS and its development is paused not, that's why we won't see these new actions. Live with it.
I tried... there are tons of good developers out there. But yes SWS is pretty stuck now

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But yes SWS is pretty stuck now
Now 136% unstuck (TM)!

I like this request, but... there's no easy way (from an API point of view) to preview a media item with a stop point. Reaper will gladly start wherever you tell it to but it won't stop until it reaches the end of the media file.

I could hack something that would stop "somewhere near the end of the time selection" but I'm not sure that's what you're looking for.
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Now 136% unstuck (TM)!

I like this request, but... there's no easy way (from an API point of view) to preview a media item with a stop point. Reaper will gladly start wherever you tell it to but it won't stop until it reaches the end of the media file.

I could hack something that would stop "somewhere near the end of the time selection" but I'm not sure that's what you're looking for.
I ended up making a custom action that creates a temporary loop around the selection. Could it be progranmed this way maybe within a script?
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