Need help with Beep

[DeltaMac]

End of dock, near the trash. Do you see the separator?
As I said, that would separate the "folders and files" area from the "apps" area.
A file won't stick on the Apps side, but it will stick on the "folders and files" side
(every year or so, I try to prune out items that I rarely use, or didn't use for the last year or so.)
For example, I use Zoom and several other "social" helper apps, so probably 6 items that I have added in the last couple of months. I'm hoping I can move those out, once things start relaxing a bit more, and I go back to seldom using those same items. And, I can drag those off of the dock, leaving a less crowded dock...
(I have about 25 items in my Dock, including trash and finder icon)

I know my situation is not the same as yours, just offering the idea that you should evaluate that Dock every now and then. All those items are not much more than a click or two away, Dock or not. Well, I also have a folder (named Quick Access) near a corner of the screen which has about a dozen apps and docs (all aliases/links) that I actually do use quite often, just not interested in having everything that I do in my Dock. It's a folder that I started using with OS X Public Beta, almost 20 years ago. It's also my ONLY folder that uses icons, rather than my normal list view.

I apologize (a little) for taking your answer in a different direction - you can choose to ignore me.

 

[Ambrosia7177]

End of dock, near the trash. Do you see the separator?

Yes.

As I said, that would separate the "folders and files" area from the "apps" area.
A file won't stick on the Apps side, but it will stick on the "folders and files" side

Okay, I have never put a folder or document on the Dock, so I just learned something!

(every year or so, I try to prune out items that I rarely use, or didn't use for the last year or so.)
For example, I use Zoom and several other "social" helper apps, so probably 6 items that I have added in the last couple of months. I'm hoping I can move those out, once things start relaxing a bit more, and I go back to seldom using those same items. And, I can drag those off of the dock, leaving a less crowded dock...
(I have about 25 items in my Dock, including trash and finder icon)

I probably have the same number of apps. I would never puts docs there, but in this case, I need a way to fire off this beep file at a moments notice, so I'll make an exception.

I know my situation is not the same as yours, just offering the idea that you should evaluate that Dock every now and then.

No, I appreciate any advice on staying organized! In my case, I think I pretty much use all of the apps on my Dock, although there are a few i could probably prune.

All those items are not much more than a click or two away, Dock or not. Well, I also have a folder (named Quick Access) near a corner of the screen which has about a dozen apps and docs (all aliases/links) that I actually do use quite often, just not interested in having everything that I do in my Dock. It's a folder that I started using with OS X Public Beta, almost 20 years ago. It's also my ONLY folder that uses icons, rather than my normal list view.

I apologize (a little) for taking your answer in a different direction - you can choose to ignore me.

Nope, I welcome learning how others work.

Back to my beep file, so I'm still a little confused about what I just did.

@Mr_Brightside_@ said to add the file to iTunes, and then drag it from iTunes to the Dock.

Why that order?

Since I do NOT like having duplicate files in iTuens and on my HDD, I'm still not sure the logic behind how iTunes works. But I turned off the option to have it make copies, so that leads me to a few questions...

1.) Why can't I make an alias of "beep.mp3" and drag the alias to the Dock?

2.) Why do I have to add the file to the iTunes library?

3.) If I set iTunes to: Controls > Repeat > One, then does that setting apply to everything that plays in iTunes, or just things in the iTunes Library or just a particular file?

4.) Is there a way to make it so I map this particular file (i.e. "beep.mp3") to automatically play in another player like QuickTime and always loop? (I'm still worried that as I listen to other mp3's that I have created, that what happened before might happen again, which is when I launched iTunes, a radio staton that I had in my playlist started playing.)

On a side note, I think Rogue Amoeba has an app like you would use on a radio show, where you can click a button in the app and it will play pre-defined music. I will check that out, but for now I want to do what I asked about in my OP.

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

You don’t have to have the file in the iTunes library, it can remain where it is, but be sure not to move it.

 

[Ambrosia7177]

You don’t have to have the file in the iTunes library, it can remain where it is, but be sure not to move it.

Is there a way to launch just this particular file in say QuickTime?

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

I can set an individual mp3 to always open in QuickTime 10, but QT does not remember the Loop setting after quitting and re-opening.

 

[Mr_Brightside_@]

Quod Libet, recommended here, seemed to launch, play, and loop automatically once I set an mp3 to open with it.

 

[Ambrosia7177]

I can set an individual mp3 to always open in QuickTime 10, but QT does not remember the Loop setting after quitting and re-opening.

So it looks like QuickTime is out.

Any idea why a radio station started playing when I opened up Itunes earlier this week?

What is even more strange, is I *thought* my Internet radio station playlist from VLC was also in Itunes on my Retina, but when I look for it now it is gone. Not sure what happened to it>

If it was there, I can see how it my have been the default and opening up iTunes caused it to play, but I don't see any Internet radio stations now.

(These are some of the many reason I dislike iTunes..)