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 louiem...@wavecable.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
