[jasonsRX7]

I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions for how to go about playing audio files without adding them to the iTunes library. A friend of mine copied some mp3s to my computer, and I want to listen to them before I decide to put them in my library.

What I want to do is just browse the folder and double click the files to listen to them, and if I like them, drag them into iTunes. Should I make another program my default audio player? I still want to use iTunes to listen to my library and manage my iPod. Will that cause any problems?

[chalk_outline]

You can put QuickTime player in your dock. Drag the file to that and it will play without iTunes.

As for The double-click you could GET INFO all of them and make them open with QuickTime player.

I would go with number one.

[CharlesS]

If you browse your hard drive using Column View and single-click on an audio file, you can play that file straight from the Finder without even needing to open QuickTime Player.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
If you browse your hard drive using Column View and single-click on an audio file, you can play that file straight from the Finder without even needing to open QuickTime Player.

That ranks among the way coolest features of OS X. I so depend on it (I work with lots of audio files) that I don't even think about it until I sit down at an older Mac or on a Windows machine and just...um...oh yeah...gaah.

Finder previews in Column View rock (except for video, which seems to use up an inordinate amount of processor time).

-s*

[jasonsRX7]

Thanks for the suggestions... I had never tried the column view preview before. It works pretty well. Column view is kinda ugly, with the way it truncates long filenames, but the preview function makes up for it.

Thanks again

[cpac]

Originally posted by jasonsRX7:
Column view is kinda ugly, with the way it truncates long filenames

FYI - you can expand the width of a column just by dragging the little widget at the bottom of a column divider (so you can see more the file name)

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally posted by jasonsRX7:
Thanks for the suggestions... I had never tried the column view preview before. It works pretty well. Column view is kinda ugly, with the way it truncates long filenames, but the preview function makes up for it.

Thanks again

If you double-click the little widget at the bottom of the column divider, the column will auto-resize to fit the longest filename.

That rocks and serves fine for the times you need it.

-s*

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
If you double-click the little widget at the bottom of the column divider, the column will auto-resize to fit the longest filename.

That rocks and serves fine for the times you need it.

-s*

Hey, cool! I didn't know about that one.

Thanks!