In all seriousness, what does it do?

[vexorian]

Hey, it is about to be a whole year since I migrated completely to Ubuntu, and just noticed I still haven't figured out something.

When you place your mouse above a music or video file in nautilus a message bubble with a musical note in it appears, I still don't know what that does :)

Is it an easter egg or just "cute candy"?

[LaRoza]

It doesn't happen for me.

[NightwishFan]

In 8.04 if I do this it plays the music file like a preview. No windows open but It will play until I move the mouse away.

[vexorian]

It doesn't happen for me.
What exactly doesn't happen?

[FuturePilot]

If you install the package mpg123 and hover over an .mp3 file it will play. Also if you install vorbis-tools and hover over an .ogg audio file it will play also. It doesn't work in Gutsy though but it should work in Hardy again. Pretty cool feature.

[ShodanjoDM]

In the Nautilus: Edit>>Preferences>>Preview

If you turn on the preview for sound files, you'll hear a preview (prehear? lol) of the sound/music file when the mouse hovers above it.

I haven't been able to make it works with Ubuntu Studio 7.10 though, although I've installed the mpg123 and some other packages as mentioned elsewhere in this forum.

But it used to work with 7.04.

Edit: hehe, FuturePilot beats me to it :D

[vexorian]

But it used to work with 7.04 I actually had sound preview disabled for ages, but nothing happens, gonna try installing those packages...

[LaRoza]

What exactly doesn't happen?

Is that a joke? Many things don't happen :)

(I don't get any popups)

[ShodanjoDM]

(I don't get any popups)

But you can get popcorn :popcorn:

Sorry, can't resist :lolflag:

[Chilli Bob]

This was a nice feature of Dapper, but I haven't had it work in any later release.

[DarkDancer]

Well, it will work in Gutsy, but I hjad to go through hoops to get it working, then I reinstalled and while it's kinda cool, it wasn't worth the whole rig amoral.

[MONODA]

It doesn't happen for me.
you have to enable it in nautilus settings.

This did not work for me from before, neither did my shutdown sound, but one time my laptop ran out of batteries and the system shutdown unsafely, it worked after that ...

what is supposed to happen is if you mouse over on wav files, you should hear the clip and if you single click on ogg or mp3, it should play (untill you mouse the mouse away)

[ryanhaigh]

From the breif period that I was using it I recall that it only works when in icon mode, which as it happens is the reason I don't use it :P

[blithen]

In 8.04 if I do this it plays the music file like a preview. No windows open but It will play until I move the mouse away.
I did it with Feisty but it won't work in gutsy what do I change to make it do that?

[vishzilla]

I was thinking about it couple of days back. Now I installed mpg123 and the audio preview is working

[blithen]

I was thinking about it couple of days back. Now I installed mpg123 and the audio preview is working
I just installed it and it's not working. Any other dependencies you can think of?

[vishzilla]

I dunno, I installed two packages, here is the log of it

Commit Log for Sun Mar 16 12:51:25 2008
Installed the following packages:
mpg123 (0.66-1)
oss-compat (0.0.4)

[CREEPING DEATH]

It's a Gnome feature that plays the file, and for some reason it's disabled by default in Ubuntu.

CD

[vexorian]

Installing those packages worked (feisty)


It's a Gnome feature that plays the file, and for some reason it's disabled by default in Ubuntu.

CD


I think I know the reason, for most users it might be a little annoying, and you need all those packages and codecs to make it work consistently, so it is nice as an optional feature.