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"Play selected range" command
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Description
Your idea
Ability to select just the measures across just the staves you want to hear, and have it play back just that range
Problem to be solved
The current play command continues after a selected range ends, and more importantly, after stopping and restarting continues from where it last left off.
For "proof-listening" a particularly fiddly section that needs a bit of work, what would be more useful it to select just the measures across just the staves you want to hear, and have it play back just that range - always starting at the beginning and stopping at the end, only playing notes that are in the staves selected.
For day 1, could be accessible only via shortcut key (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+space?).
Prior art
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Additional context
There is already a "loop playback" command but I don't want to loop it, just play it once, make an adjustment, then (manually) play again. Also to change the range it seems to have you turn loop mode on and off again.
Additionally I was seeing that if I changed the playback cursor position (by deselecting/selecting), but remained in loop mode, the loop markers remained but were ignored (reverting to normal playback mode).
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Research direction
Start by reading the existing playback and loop playback command entry points, then trace how selection and playback cursor state are handled. Confirm the shortcut approach and define completion as playback starting at the selected measures and staves, stopping at the range end, and not looping.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100