Another useful feature is gone missing in Leopard
November 2, 2007 2:06 amLeopard, Rant, Software Review
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.
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!
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.
November 20th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
use SPACE or Command-y for direct preview in every finder view!!
January 11th, 2008 at 4:01 am
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.
February 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
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.