Another useful feature is gone missing in Leopard

November 2, 2007 Lazeez 5 comments

Yet another useful feature has been eliminated in Leopard.

The audio controller that the Finder’s column view had for the preview pane when previewing audio files has been eliminated. Why? I don’t know. No logical explanation can come to mind.

Audio Controller In Tiger, if you set your window’s view to the column view and point it to a folder that has MP3 files, when you select one of those files, the right-most column shows a controller that allows you to play the audio file, select the point where you want the play head to be and control the playback’s volume. Leopard: NO MORE!

Leopardâ€™s music controller What you get in Leopard is a silly, YouTube-like preview square with a big ‘play’ button in its middle. No volume control and no skipping ahead. You can always hit the space bar to get a big window showing iTunes like display, and you can skip ahead, but you still can’t control the volume.

Somebody should tell Apple’s engineers that an UPGRADE is when you make things better, not worse.

Rant Leopard, Mac OS X

#1 | Written by dolce on November 20, 2007.

use SPACE or Command-y for direct preview in every finder view!!
#2 | Written by doc on January 11, 2008.

Quickview is the reasoning behind this. As dolce said, you can use the shortcuts to activate it or click on the icon in the toolbar of the finder window.
#3 | Written by tobias on February 7, 2008.

ok, but i see no way to control the volume level – which i think is absolutely neccessary. even so, having to bring a new window up and repositioning the mouse is NOT an improvment. apple should at least give us a choice of what to display in column view, in my opinion.
#4 | Written by patterntangle on October 23, 2008.

I feel your pain.
I have just tonight had to preview hundreds of royalty free tracks to find one that suits a TV ad. What a pain! I’d be happy just to double click and they open in quicktime but it seems impossible to set every mp3 on my system to default to quicktime!
oh the pain.
#5 | Written by Jasper on April 7, 2009.

perhaps click the audio button in the top-right?
one logical reason for removing it comes to my mind:
having two audio controls isn’t logical, remove one and use the main one. People that are used to the other control should learn to use the main control.

Better isn’t specifically when [i]you[/i] think it’s better since you’re only human which means odds are that you are to used to the old to see the new.

Or isn’t that what you had in mind?

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