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Nov 25, 2013 1:45 PM in response to rc293by xprsnism,I'm experiencing this too. Incredibly annoying. It seems the QuickLook MIDI plug-in that used to work is dependent on QT7. There's no workaround AFAIK... Hopefully Apple or a third party developer will make a QuickLook MIDI plug-in that doesn't have that dependency.
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Nov 26, 2013 6:44 PM in response to rc293by Bob Lyons,I've sent Apple feedback about this. I was hoping it would be fixed within days. I have thousands of midi files. It is massively frustrating not being able to 'quick look' them any more. Maybe I can find an app that previews midi files without opening them? Don't know what else to do...
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Nov 26, 2013 7:27 PM in response to Bob Lyonsby w7ox,If you were able to function as you wanted prior to Mavericks installation, you may want to revert to your prior version of OS X for a time.
Phil
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Dec 25, 2013 12:27 AM in response to rc293by RAMANIUHA,I also encountered this problem. found the net from a third party plugin but it did not solve the problem. Midi files are still not played in quick review and I can not play in the Internet browser Safari. Technical support of the applets on this occasion still silent. Set until the program for playing midi TiMidity + + but it is still not comfortable
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Sep 27, 2014 8:44 AM in response to rc293by dirk bill,I'm in the same boat. What's absurd is I can preview MIDI in the Finder (Mountain Lion) at work but not at home (Mavericks). Clearly Apple dropped the ball on this, and nobody is picking it up. I'm seeing people all over the web complaining about it. Either the Quicktime team is fixing this problem and the solution will magically appear one day, or...
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Mar 20, 2015 9:26 PM in response to djstyleeeby dirk bill,Nope. Pathetic. QuickTime 7 will play them without a problem, as was stated before, but still no Quick Look/Finder preview.
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Mar 21, 2015 4:31 AM in response to djstyleeeby QuickTimeKirk,There will never be a fix.
Apple has ended support for dozens of legacy codecs in Mavericks, and later and Quicklook will not preview them. The only way to play them is using QuickTime Player 7.
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May 17, 2015 11:19 AM in response to joesquarepantsby QuickTimeKirk,Read my post above and face your options.
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May 17, 2015 2:41 PM in response to QuickTimeKirkby djstyleee,It wouldn't be so bad if they actually enabled you to audition MIDI files in Logic Pro X via the File Browser. It is a shame Apple do not respond as quite rightly it just makes us pro users think our voice is not being heard anymore.
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Jun 29, 2016 4:25 PM in response to rc293by Topgunner222,# Info #
I've created a quicklook plugin to solve this using past versions of Quicktime 7.6.6, Audio.qlgenerator, and Music.qldisplay from OS X Mountain Lion.
Forewarning, the reason this was taken out of OS X is due to a security vulnerability it caused; while not a major security flaw, Apple opted to discontinue midi preview, I'm guessing because it was relatively infrequently used when considering your average user. For me, it is worth the risk to have midi previews.
Here is a zip file containing the files necessary
https://www.dropbox.com/s/67uuc91t34wx2zp/midi-ql.zip?dl=0
SHA256: a09d2f93ab9207f8a73c76e9bdf23b1f925973f6cb68c95531339d1e7f88498a
File name: midi-ql.zip
# Installation #
1. Move `midiQL.qlgenerator` to `~/Library/QuickLook`
2. Move `Audio.qlgenerator` to `/System/Library/QuickLook`
3. Move `Music.qldisplay` to `/System/Library/Frameworks/Quartz.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/QuickLookUI. framework/Versions/A`
4. Open `/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app` and run `qlmanage -r && qlmanage -r cache`
5. Preview audio and midi to your heart's content!