Finder.app, the multi-song MP3 player

Feb 17, '03 08:41:00AM

Contributed by: VEGx

Did you know you can play your mp3 playlists in the Finder window? Well, you can! I was making m3u files [robg adds: See this hint for more on .m3u files], one per every mp3 CD I have, so I could play them in `mpg123' via Terminal or X11. Then I decided to make a m3u file for the two songs I have on hard drive.

 % find . -regex '.*.[Mm][Pp]3$' > VEGAN.m3u
The "new" thing I noticed was that if I selected the "VEGAN.m3u" in the Finder.app and clicked on the preview, I could play the songs! In the right hand side you can choose the number of the song in the playlist. If a song ends, the next song is started. So, Finder.app is a "poor man's MP3 player"!

For some reason this only worked with mp3s on the hard drive, i.e., ~/Music/; the MP3 CDs didn't work through Finder. If someone can solve this final mystery...

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