On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Mike Miller wrote: > USB Foot Pedal for Computer Transcription > https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-USB-1-Computer-Transcription-Pedal/dp/B008EA1K66 One of the first things I thought of was something like this: https://www.musicradar.com/news/this-video-shows-you-how-to-turn-an-old-usb-keyboard-into-a-foot-switch-controller If I can find the right keyboard for my use case, it might work really well. These would be the most important keystrokes: space Play/pause Shift + Left Arrow Jump 5 seconds back [ Slower (fine) ] Faster (fine) These would be good, too: = Normal rate Shift + Right Arrow Jump 5 seconds forward Alt + Left Arrow Jump 10 sec. back Alt + Right Arrow Jump 10 sec. forward Control + Left Arrow Jump 1 minute back Control + Right Arrow Jump 1 minute forward Apparently, something like this might be useful for looping part of a song I'm trying to play along with (or some speech I want to transcribe): start=240 #start time in seconds stop=560 #stop time in seconds vlc movie.avi --start-time $start --stop-time $stop --repeat Mike