cant preview mp3's directly from the finder

amario1985 wrote:

OMG! That works! Thank You man! you doin it!!

What do I have to do now?

I would not migrate everything over to this new account. This simply shows that something is wrong with your user account (since it works in a different account).

Have you ran Disk First Aid?

Yeah... It was meant more as a test, to help narrow down the cause. I was not suggesting moving everything over to the new account. I keep a "Test User" account handy, for troubleshooting.

So now, you know the cause is something that is messed up (or conflicting), in your current user account. It's not a systemwide problem, which is good news.

Doing Repair Disk Permissions in Disk Utility is worth a shot. Couldn't hurt...

Also, look at what you have running automatically as Login Items in System Preferences Users & Groups pane. Maybe there's something suspicious that runs in the background and interferes. While you're there, if there's anything that you don't use anymore (or don't know what it is), I'd take it off the list.

Other than that, it's likely to be some user preferences setting. That may be hard to figure out.

As a last resort, you can migrate your user data and settings from the current account to the new one.

I have the fix!!!!

I have had the same issue ever since Lion. Its been very painful not having album art preview in finder or the play button when rollover the file for so many versions of OSX. Today I worked hard in trying to solve the problem since Applecare support hasn't helped much, all they did was tell me to bring the computer in. The other main reason I got so motivated to try and fix this is because the DJ app for Mac only reads album art from the finder even if iTunes can display the album art. The other reason that got me curious is that my friends macbook pro album art worked fine, so I cross checked with his computer until I figured out a few things that helped and ultimately fixed the issue. FINALLY!

My set up:

- I have my full iTunes library folder on my external as I have over 700GB of music.

- It includes all my database files in there, which is very important as I have many playlist settings from over 7 years of iTunes activity.

SOLUTION:

1. With every new computer I have purchased, I use to just pressed option on Mac and press iTunes to locate my folder (which I have said is located on my external drive).

2. I tried today to press option again BUT locate and selected the default library in the user/music folder of my internal drive (standard setting from Apple).

3. Miraculously, all the album art appeared in both my external drive library and also today's downloaded songs on my Macbook pro. Ofcourse with the new default location I don't have any songs or data.

4. So I tried to find a way to keep this library data on my internal drive since it can help the finder display all my files properly, yes even have the play on rollover button but as well link it back to my external drive with all my 700GB songs.

5. I then went into iTunes Preferences/Advance tab and in iTunes Media folder location redirected the location to my external drive iTunes/ iTunes Media folder. If it asks to collate data, press NO.

6. Then I quit iTunes.

7. Next I copied the 4 files to my desktop from my external drive as I want to keep the data I have made with all my playlists etc. The four files are iTunes Library Extras.itdb , iTunes Library Genius.itdb , iTunes Library.itl , iTunes Library.xml

8. I then went to my internal drive User/Music/Itunes/ and dragged these 4 files I copied from my external drive into here and making sure to REPLACE the four existing files already there.

9. Next open iTunes and you will find all your presettings appear with all your music linked to your external. What this does is keep the important library files on your internal drive (that somehow makes your finder files album art appear), BUT to read also all the music mp3 files located in the external drive (action from step 5)

Presto!! All your music files whether on internal drive or external all the album art has appeared. 😀

Hope this helps!! Let me know if there are any other questions.

I am on 10.8.1 running retina macbook pro.

Good news: I found a solution.

Start iTunes, remove all your voice memos from your library (back them up if you need them), quit iTunes. Restart Finder. Done. I hope that helps!

omg its works!!! thanks so much, omg this is so simple. Victory! )))

It works perfectly, i just had to change the icon size in( show view option) to 68x68