I am a recent Mac convert, and one of the Windows apps I missed was the wonderful Media Player Classic (MPC). While this was not ported to Mac OS X, QuickTime Player offers almost all of the functions I needed except one. I am a huge fan of loading a music or video file and having it automatically repeat over and over. QuickTime supports looping in this fashion, but does not support a global loop for every file, as such I had to select loop each time. Thanks to some suggestions in the forums ("capitalj" in particular), I came up with an AppleScript droplet to do the job:
on open of target_files
set theMovie to target_files
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open theMovie
set the looping of document 1 to true
play document 1
end tell
end open
However, this was only partially successful. It mean't I had to drag each file onto the droplet in order for it to work. After some poking around, I discovered that I needed to compile it into an application bundle using Xcode. This way, I could associate it with certain file types (e.g. mp4), and as a result, I could double-click those files and have them open in QuickTime with the loop setting checked.
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