Hi. When I bring an audio file into a project, Scrivener allows me to open it in an external editor. Can I specify what that editor is, or can S only open it in the editor set in Windows as the default for that file type?
It appears to do the latter, and I see no option for the former.
Thanks.
There’s no option for this at the moment; it just uses the default program associated with the file type.
Thanks, MM. I can see how it would be simpler to let the system handle that directly.
Is that already available on the Mac side, or is it just on the general to do/wish list?
FWIW, I’ve currently got audio set to open in Winamp (reportedly soon to rise from the dead), which is just a player, and was hoping I could tell S to send to REAPER, which shares with Scrivener the distinction of being one of only two first-order applications this Mad Girl has explored and then switched to from one of the Big Boys. 
What you can do is make a playlist, then have that as a link to be opened in an external editor. (I’d do this for playlists.) Problem is, they’re usually OS-specific. (That is, I can’t share it between windows and Linux because pathnames aren’t the same.)
Thanks, garpu
Would you explain that a bit?
I am not clear in this case what you mean by a playlist, so I am not seeing how we end up in an external editor.
In your audio player of choice, make a playlist. (It varies depending upon the program.)
In Scrivener: Project references, add external, add the playlist.
Here’s where I got the trick from, although it doesn’t seem to be working in Linux anymore: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/playlist/8535/11
(Is this a bug, or did something change?)
It was added sometime mid-2.x in the Mac version, I forget when exactly. So it will be coming to Windows, but of course since it’s a different operating system, we’ll have to figure out how to hook it up there. (And then there’s Linux…!)
Hang on…I could’ve SWORN it worked. I was using it awhile ago. Or do I need to caffeinate more?