Jun 19, '06 07:30:01AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
I had downloaded around 100 images from my camera using Image Capture and was wanting to view a quick, lightweight Finder slideshow. About two slides in, I realized that pictures are kind of boring without music. I guess I could've opened iTunes, but I didn't want to bother, so I opened a new Finder window in Column View. I navigated just a few simple steps into my iTunes music library, found a song, and started playing it using the Finder.
I was fairly sure it would stop as soon as I clicked the Finder window with all of my pictures in it, but it didn't. I thought, "Surely, when I start the slideshow it'll stop...", but it didn't, and I was amazed. An ultra light-weight slideshow with music. No iTunes or iPhoto needed.
[robg adds: This only works if you use a separate Finder window for playing back the music; the Finder will stop playing as soon as you navigate out of the window containing the playing song. And yea, this is fairly standard OS X behavior, but combining two Finder functions into a new one is sort of unique.]
