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quick look + FLAC

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cristobalviel

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hi.

Anybody know a FLAC plugin for quick look, I can't listen to my song in FLAC format using quick look cause mac doesn't support it.

maby i should to look for a flac plugin for quicktime and then quick look will work !?

please help , someone know's about this issue ?

thkns in advance.
 
I thought Perian supported it, but maybe i'm wrong.
Just use VLC media or something.... Probably the best bet, although it doesn't help with quick view.
 
cristobalviel said:
hi.

Anybody know a FLAC plugin for quick look, I can't listen to my song in FLAC format using quick look cause mac doesn't support it.

maby i should to look for a flac plugin for quicktime and then quick look will work !?

please help , someone know's about this issue ?

thkns in advance.
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I don't know if this will work for you (I don't know of any FLAC-playing plug-ins), but you could use XLD to convert your FLAC files to ALAC and then play them with Quick Look that way.
 
Mackilroy said:
I don't know if this will work for you (I don't know of any FLAC-playing plug-ins), but you could use XLD to convert your FLAC files to ALAC and then play them with Quick Look that way.
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allready use VOX player to play flac's and other format's

what i want to do is reproduce flac's into quick look for a quick way to listen to them !!

tks !!
 
cristobalviel said:
i allready use VOX player to play flac's and other format's

what i want to do is reproduce flac's into quick look for a quick way to listen to them !!
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It won't work with Quick Look unless you convert them to another format.
 
I'm looking for this solution also but if you just want to play flac files you can use COG. I'm using this software to listen to music (it is like winamp for windows), it can play lot of different formats including FLAC
 
groman said:
I'm looking for this solution also but if you just want to play flac files you can use COG. I'm using this software to listen to music (it is like winamp for windows), it can play lot of different formats including FLAC
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mmm. to bad, hope, in Lion next to release, flac i'll be included

WHO know's.
 
success with fluke, installed fluke today and ... ta da , Quick Look now can read FLAC files and additionally OGG files. Installed Fluke_0.11 on Snow 10.6.7. see attachment
 

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cristobalviel said:
please tell me how ?, cause it only work with itunes for me..
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I innstalled Fluke last stable version and it start working, I didn't even reboot. What else related to .flac I have installed: MacFlac, Perian, Cog, XLD, Xact. Check if you have installed this and let me know if it works for you
 
groman said:
I innstalled Fluke last stable version and it start working, I didn't even reboot. What else related to .flac I have installed: MacFlac, Perian, Cog, XLD, Xact. Check if you have installed this and let me know if it works for you
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great work's perfect now !!!!!

anyway i gona ckeck wich of all those app it's the rigth one...i think not all the apps it's the one.... ?
 
cristobalviel said:
great work's perfect now !!!!!

anyway i gona ckeck wich of all those app it's the rigth one...i think not all the apps it's the one.... ?
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ok, the final quote

i keep ... perian & macflac... work great, tkans a lot !!

p.s seems that the other 2 .... not necessary

bye
 
cristobalviel said:
ok, the final quote

i keep ... perian & macflac... work great, tkans a lot !!

p.s seems that the other 2 .... not necessary

bye
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Glad to hear,
that's right other 2 are not necessary, but I'm using them to rip/convert music especially XLD, Xact I installed only to see what is this and How it's working, but I think XLD is better
 
groman said:
I'm looking for this solution also but if you just want to play flac files you can use COG. I'm using this software to listen to music (it is like winamp for windows), it can play lot of different formats including FLAC
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i recommend vox player, reed all types of format's and has a great look.. it's simple and powerfull... take a look...

for free !

http://www.voxapp.uni.cc/
 
Confirmed, There are only required two applications (Fluke and Perian) to have Flac working with Quick Look verified with OS X 10.6.7. I tried this with 10.6.3 and no effect. Tested on OS X 10.7; works with Fluke only
 
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Fluke partly works

I installed Fluke which doesn't work:

Fluke Error
An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script
GUIFormatError: app(u'/Applications/iTunes.app').add

But hitting the spacebar with a .flac file selected in Finder plays beautifully.

MacBookPro3,1 6GB
OS X 10.6.8 (32 bit)
iTunes 10.6.1
Perian 1.2.3
 
I have /Library/QuickTime/FLACImport.component/Contents/MacOS/FLACImport

Might have came from here


File created 2006, ppc/i386, crazy it still works on Ventura 13.3.1 on M1. Quicklook can play Flac and also you can Finder search for tracks by title, if you search for flac it shows all the tracknames in the Name column rather than filenames.

Edit: removed and reboot and the quicklook and finder search is still working so must not have been that plugin!
 
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It doesn't. Quicklook can play FLAC because it's supported natively by macOS now. You can safely deleted that old component.
 
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galad said:
It doesn't. Quicklook can play FLAC because it's supported natively by macOS now. You can safely deleted that old component.
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That wasn't the case 12 years ago, when this thread was created.
 
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