Can Quick Time Play An Entire Album of Songs?

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Dino1956 Author

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Can Quick Time Play An Entire Album of Songs?

Is there any way to play an entire album of Music using Quick Time. I know it sounds odd, but I don't want to use iTunes. Is VLC the Only Player that is capable of doing this on the Mac? I find it strange that Quick Time wouldn't have this function on it's own without using iTunes. Sometimes I like to drop an album into a Player & just listen to the one album. Just my Preference.

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Posted on Dec 16, 2009 7:01 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 16, 2009 8:16 AM in response to Dino1956

Select all the songs in the album-->hit Quick look button or the space bar-->hit play. All the song will play one after another in the finder. The draw back to this option is you can't do anything else on the computer because the finder is being used to play the music.

You can use Automator to make a playlist. But, then again you might as well use iTunes.

If you want something fast and simple that doesn't bring up a program to play the music go the Quick look route.

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Dino1956 Author

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Dec 16, 2009 8:32 AM in response to David M Brewer

That's a great Little Trick. The only thing is, when I click Safari & want to surf the Internet (or Click anything else) while my Music is playing, The Song Stops. That Screen with Quick Look needs to be open & as front & on Top Page in order to Play.

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Answer 3

Dec 16, 2009 8:54 AM in response to Dino1956

I said there was a draw back with Quick Look... You can try this program to make either a video or music playlist.

http://www.vivanno.com/site/?page_id=59

Just below the image of the playlist is the download link. It's free but has one of the donation windows that pops up...

Message was edited by: David M Brewer

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Dino1956 Author

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Dec 16, 2009 9:29 AM in response to David M Brewer

David, you did say that. I overlooked it. Anyway, I will check out the Vivano Plug In. As I do just want to use QT & not another Program. Thanks for the help. I'lllet you know how I like Vivano's Plug In for QT.

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Answer 5

Dec 16, 2009 9:39 AM in response to Dino1956

"Sometimes I like to drop an album into a Player & just listen to the one album. Just my Preference."

My preference also. I play most if not all of my "albums" on Quicktime & can still use my computer. Doing so at this very minute.

The trick is, if the albums are ones that you have downloaded from the net, most will contain a "playlist.m3u" music file. The .m3u file is the one you can drop onto QT enabling you to do whatever on your computer w/o QT stopping.

I am not that knowledgable to know how to make my own .m3u file. QuickTimeKirk may know. He is quite the QT expert. Perhaps there is a way using iTunes. The knowledgeable users in the iTunes forum may know if possible.

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Dino1956 Author

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Dec 16, 2009 4:15 PM in response to Baby-Boomer-USofA

very interesting. you think you can create the .m3u file. The program from Vivano just crashed on me. Maybe it doesn't like QT 10. I'm going to stick to VLC. Since I really don't have a choice. Even If I found out how to make an .m3u file Playlist, I have literally thousands of albums. Would take forever.

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