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Subject: sidplay: add --playtime=HH:MM:SS.SSS option
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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi>
Date: 29 Feb 2000 23:55:34 +0200
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Package: sidplay
Version: 1.36.35-2
Severity: wishlist

I would like to be able to specify the length of the tune on the
sidplay command line.  For example,

  $ sidplay --playtime=25:45.712 Beben_Wally/Tetris.sid

would play for 25 minutes and 45.712 seconds, and then exit.
This would make it much easier to write a playlist as a shell
script.  I use "sleep" and "kill" nowadays but that gives only
one-second resolution and doesn't take the sidplay startup time
in account.

The short form of this option could be -t, for consistency with
sid2wav.

(Oh, sidplay doesn't have any long options except --help?  So add
them!  :-)

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux PC486 2.2.14 #1 ke tammi  19 11:39:08 EET 2000 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages sidplay depends on:
ii  libc6          2.1.3-2        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libsidplay1.36 1.36.35-2      SID (MOS 6581) emulation library
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-0pre2   The GNU stdc++ library