Leopard trick (quick look)

[MIDI Life Crisis]

For those of us who have jumped to Leo... we know that QuickLook isn't just for text. It works for movies and most audio files. Select a file, hit CMD-Y or select QLook from the finder, or CTL-click (or right click if your mouse isn't programmed to do something else with a right click) and you can hear the file. Makes finding sounds easy and fast.

But did you know that once a files is in a QLook window, if you want to see (or hear or view) another file, all you need to do is drag it into the black QLook window and IT will start playing (or whatever). IOW, if you have a folder full of files you want to hear, QLook one, and from then on just drag the other ones in and you can hear them.

Not impressed? Then go into hyper-QLook. Select your file and activate QLook. Go back to your folder (or ANY OTHER folder for that matter) and simply click on a file while QLook is active. Voila! You newly selected file is playing.

No more dragging to a Quicktime icon. Right from the finder, audition your sounds and movies. Pretty freakin' cool, huh?

[rentadrummer]

No more dragging to a Quicktime icon. Right from the finder, audition your sounds and movies. Pretty freakin' cool, huh?

I don't have Leopard yet so I'm not familiar with Quick Look, but I've always done something similar to what you're describing in Tiger. If you're in column view in a Finder window, and select an audio or movie file, you get a Preview window and can play the file. Is that feature no longer available in Leopard?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

No more dragging to a Quicktime icon. Right from the finder, audition your sounds and movies. Pretty freakin' cool, huh?

I don't have Leopard yet so I'm not familiar with Quick Look, but I've always done something similar to what you're describing in Tiger. If you're in column view in a Finder window, and select an audio or movie file, you get a Preview window and can play the file. Is that feature no longer available in Leopard?

Yes, that is still there, but in Leopard playback starts as soon as you select the file (as long as you had invoked QuickLook) and will continue to the next selected item - making moving thru large directories of sounds much quicker. BTW, in Spaces, playback will stop until you return to that Space and then will resume upon your return.

[auptown]

No more dragging to a Quicktime icon. Right from the finder, audition your sounds and movies. Pretty freakin' cool, huh?

I don't have Leopard yet so I'm not familiar with Quick Look, but I've always done something similar to what you're describing in Tiger. If you're in column view in a Finder window, and select an audio or movie file, you get a Preview window and can play the file. Is that feature no longer available in Leopard?

Right, I've done the same thing. In fact, you can use the down arrow to go to the next file while you hold the mouse over the play button, so you can audition a bunch files pretty quickly. down - click, down - click.

I just have to remember to stop the playing before I drag the file into my project, if it's a long file it can play for a while!

[Kubi]

Just FYI: For those who are not upgrading to Leo yet, you can do the same thing using IcedAudio's AudioFinder

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Just FYI: For those who are not upgrading to Leo yet, you can do the same thing using IcedAudio's AudioFinder

And then some. I would recommend AudioFinder regardless of Leo's roar. Thanks for the reminder.

[jgest]

very cool tip. thank you.