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Audio Download - Anki plugin for downloading JDIC audio

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I just checked it out and it looks nice, but it's not practical for me to use as-is. My vocab deck is 12,000+ words and I add 50-100 daily (averaged out over a week).

Right now if I come across a card lacking audio (all of mine at the minute), it takes:
-1 click to see answer of card
-mousing up to button bar
-1 click to open dialog
-mousing down to dialog box
-1 click to download & listen
-1 click to save
-vocab card is reset, so I need to answer it again and hear the audio a second time (2 clicks)

That is a total of 6 clicks, 2 listenings, and a lot of mousing just for one card (including having to answer it twice). There must be a way to reduce that down to 0 clicks for approving the audio and 1 click to reject. Perhaps clicking the button could bring up a sidebar like the jxplugin and enter "download mode", during which it would auto-download & save words (for audio-less cards) as you review and have a button to reject bad matches.

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There is also a somewhat serious bug in that you only use the kana to lookup the word. The problem is that words with the same kana might have different pitch accents. Ex:
橋 はし
端 はし
箸 はし
These all have different recordings on WWWJDIC.
Edited: 2010-04-11, 1:38 pm
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