RedZeppelin
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I've been using a Mac for less than a year now, and there is one aspect of it that is driving me up the wall: online music previewing. I'm praying that one of you will have a solution for me.
I recently started using an online music site called eMusic. Like Amazon and other sites that sell music, they offer short previews of their songs. After previewing a lot of music lately on my Mac, I find I'm running into headaches regardless of which method I use. Here's what I've run into so far:
Option 1: Preview using iTunes. If I open the preview clips in iTunes I get two headaches: 1) I have to go back and delete all of the preview entries in my library when I'm finished, and 2) When a preview finishes playing, iTunes automatically starts playing another track. Both of those problems were annoying the heck out of me, so I switched to...
Option 2: Tell Firefox to open the preview clips in Quicktime. That solved problem number 2 above, because Quicktime will only play one preview then stop until I click another, but it brings up another headache: every preview clip I open via Quicktime leaves a desktop icon. So after previewing a bunch of song clips I have a desktop full of music icons that I have to delete.
I tried using Safari instead of Firefox and I get the same problems.
Please help! Is there a way to fix either of the options above so I can have pain-free music previewing, or is there another option I haven't thought of yet? I just want to be able to preview music quickly and easily with no library or desktop cleanup afterwards.
Thanks.
I recently started using an online music site called eMusic. Like Amazon and other sites that sell music, they offer short previews of their songs. After previewing a lot of music lately on my Mac, I find I'm running into headaches regardless of which method I use. Here's what I've run into so far:
Option 1: Preview using iTunes. If I open the preview clips in iTunes I get two headaches: 1) I have to go back and delete all of the preview entries in my library when I'm finished, and 2) When a preview finishes playing, iTunes automatically starts playing another track. Both of those problems were annoying the heck out of me, so I switched to...
Option 2: Tell Firefox to open the preview clips in Quicktime. That solved problem number 2 above, because Quicktime will only play one preview then stop until I click another, but it brings up another headache: every preview clip I open via Quicktime leaves a desktop icon. So after previewing a bunch of song clips I have a desktop full of music icons that I have to delete.
I tried using Safari instead of Firefox and I get the same problems.
Please help! Is there a way to fix either of the options above so I can have pain-free music previewing, or is there another option I haven't thought of yet? I just want to be able to preview music quickly and easily with no library or desktop cleanup afterwards.
Thanks.