well, this is not an accessibility issue. when I want to play my .wav
attachments, I toggle attachments view and play them right from the
body.
On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Erik,
You asked why you can't use Quick Look in mail to play .wav files.
This is only a guess, because I'm not a computer systems person, but
the issue may be the default memory usage associated with the mail
application set up, especially to handle play and pause of buffered
streaming audio. There may be ways to handle this in the way the Mail
app is written, but I'd think that it's probably more straightforward
to set this up for files that are on disk, through the information in
Finder, than to pass forward the specifications via the mail
attachments API which probably weren't written with this in mind. You
might get in touch with Apple's accessibility folks and put in a
request for this feature. They could probably tell you (or find out)
whether this is feasible.
erik burggraaf wrote:
Here's one that's been itching at me for a while. My home phone
emails my voice mail messages to me, and they come in as wav file
attachments. Mail has a save as button, and a quick look button.
What I usually do is save the atachment, go off to where I saved it,
and press space to bring up quicklook and hear the voicemail
message. The reason I do that is because when I press the quick
look button in the mail message, I can't get the thing to play the
wav file for anything.
Any ideas why quick look will play my wav file from within finder,
but not from within mail?
Cheers,
Esther
