Ester, Thanks for all that. I wanted to use quick time for its ease of use. I tunes is a bit over the top for what I wanted.
On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Louie, > > Quick Look isn't designed to play in the background. (It's not a bug, it's a > feature <smile>). It's meant when you want to briefly examine contents -- > like to take a quick look of PDF attachments in mail, in order to decide > whether any of these need immediate action, or if you want to sample an mp3 > file that a friend sent, in case you decide that your friend really has bad > taste and you don't want to save the file! > > The pausing when you switch to another task can be useful if, for example, > you're listening to music while waitng for a Skype call. When the call comes > in, you don't have to worry about stopping the music, and you can just resume > it once you're finished speaking. I'm nor sure whether there are specific > Quick Time features you want acess to that aren't in iTunes, but what I do is > put my iTunes music folder, and particularly podcasts, into the Dock. I can > navigate to the folder in the Dock (e.g. with Control-F3 or VO-D to move to > the dock, then pressing Fn+Down arrow cycles me between the section with > Finder and applications, Downloads and other folders, and the trash. I press > space to bring up the list of artists as a menu, then type the first letters > of the Artist name to navigate to the Artist, then I press right arrow to > move to the subfolder of Albums and either type the first few letters of the > Album or use my up or down arrow keys. To access the Album tracks I press > right arrow, and then I press return to start playing the first track. > iTunes will launch in the background, if it isn't running. This method of > accessing folder contents of albums and tracks is really fast, because when > you arrow trhough the albums, artists, or track names in the menu structure > you're using aliases in the menu structure -- not moving through the actual > files and folders in a Finder menu. The menu options I have associated with > the folder (if you VO-Shift-M on the folder in the dock), are Sort by "Name", > Display as "Folder" (though now it doesn't seem to matter whether this is set > to "Folder" or "Stack" for these purposes), and View content as "Automatic" > (though I think list works, too). > > Don't know whether this will work for you, but I particularly like this for > playing and accessing podcasts. It does use iTunes, though -- just an easy > way to access your music in iTunes. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Nov 05, 2010, at 12:36 PM, louie wrote: > >> Ester, >> Using quick look works but when you change focus to let us say mail the >> sound stops. >> Is there a way I can put the quick look in the background? >> >> louie >> [email protected] >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. louie [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
