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Capoeira
October 7th, 2008, 01:24 PM
is this possible?

i have an USB-midi-Keyboard.

can i use it to control volume, change title in amarok, ect.?
Capoeira
October 7th, 2008, 01:30 PM
ok, i should have posted this in Multimedia & video too. i thougt there was no extra catagory.
Stochastic
October 7th, 2008, 02:14 PM
Moved thread to Multimedia & Video for you.

My gut instinct on this one says that it's pretty difficult to do, unless a plugin-script exists to do such a thing. There are USB volume knobs on the market, but I've never looked into the linux support on the matter.
Capoeira
June 17th, 2009, 10:18 AM
(would be better placed in multimedia-production perhaps?! since midi is more a production-feature)

still hoping to find a way

perhaps it is possible to control amarok with jack-transport? since it is possible to control jack-transport with midi. (with jackctlmmc: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=245788)
raboofje
June 17th, 2009, 06:44 PM
I mocked up a solution based on aseqdump, a little bit of perl, and amarok's dbus interface. See the thread over at http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1518