Briefly: Snow Leopard Finder icons support QuickLook

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  • Reply 41 of 42
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    Originally Posted by minderbinder View Post


    This doesn't sound useful.



    Earlier versions of OSX had better audio preview, in column view you actually got a mini transport including a timeline bar you could drag. Now you need to open quicklook for that, it's a bit of a step back.



    It's also annoying to not have a way to play and pause files in quicklook - obviously spacebar is taken, but some way to control playback from the keyboard would be nice. As would a preference to have audio and video files keep playing when you switch away from the finder to another app.



    Old way:

    You're in column view and have to be in column view only, you select your song file, and you move your mouse to the play button and press it.



    New way:

    You're in any view you damn please, you select your song file, and you press the space bar.



    Sounds like the new way's a lot easier to me. Instead of clicking a tiny 30x30 pixel icon, I just hit my gigantic spacebar on any file for a quick preview. Which, by the way, takes less time to load than a column view preview.



    And you get a big preview window that goes away as soon as you hit space again. Isn't that your keyboard shortcut right there? If you have to play and pause a song or multiple songs multiple times, or if you have to listen to music in the background, maybe you should just have iTunes open.
  • Reply 42 of 42
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by akhomerun View Post


    Old way:

    You're in column view and have to be in column view only, you select your song file, and you move your mouse to the play button and press it.



    New way:

    You're in any view you damn please, you select your song file, and you press the space bar.



    No doubt QuickLook is great, but they didn't need to rework the old column preview, removing features from that, when they introduced it.



    Anyway, in the new column preview you can still sort of scrub a movie a little bit back and forward using two finger scrolling gesture or mouse wheel, even if it's a bit ankward and the movie pauses and has to be resumed. Clearly doesn't work with audio files. Another weird detail is that with audio, you've to click inside the circled button for both starting and stopping. With movies, you start playback by clicking inside the button, but you can stop by clicking anywhere on the movie.
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