View selected tracks, PDFs in QuickLook windows

This script uses the UNIX qlmanage command to display a Quick Look window of the selected track(s), which can be audio, video, and, perhaps most usefully, PDF, whereby Preview.app is not necessary. Also handy for playing a single track out of playlist context. Need I add that a keyboard shortcut makes this very handy.

Caveats: 1) under Leopard a media file will begin playing immediately, so the script uses a hack to prevent this, 2) under Snow Leopard and better the QL window's title contains "[DEBUG]" which cannot be suppressed, and 3) the QL window can only be dismissed by clicking on its close box.

    Info:
  • short url: http://dougscripts.com/471
  • category: Miscellaneous
  • build type: Bundle (universal binary)
  • Gatekeeper Security: None
  • posted: July 15, 2010
  • total downloads: 1206
  • download size: 221.8K
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