AudioFilePlayer is obsolete?

[tjingboem]

As this Player depends on the possibilities of Java, these wave formats can be read by the AudioFilePlayer:
Sound formats: 8-bit and 16-bit audio data, in mono and stereo, with sample rates from 8 kHz to 48 kHz

That makes this Player 'not good enough' to find the samples i am looking for.

Better place IMO would be rightclick in the Blue File Manager and preview the sample from there- without the limitations above. Perhaps the diskin opcode could be used for this previewing?
Then the sample can be dragged onto the AudioLayer or one can just preview the sample to check it out so it can be used in a sampler instrument or something like that.

The AudioFilePlayer is then obsolete and can be removed.

Related issue is AudioLayer has problems with 32 bit samples #426

[tjingboem]

Thinking on this a bit further: i think it is possible to lauch VLC without GUI from the commandline.
In Options you can set this:

That command could be used for previewing as well?

PS. I just tried:

vlc -I dummy fox.wav vlc://quit
or
cvlc piano.wav vlc://quit

and that works quite well.

One could use Sox as well:

play fox.wav

I do not know yet how to interrupt this playing when you have heard enough, but i'm sure that it is possibel.

These programs are multiplatform