pre-listening to waves (or mp3s) in windows explorer

[mono]

does anyone know a way or tool to do this?

 

[The Arkitekt]

do you mean without using an audio player or something? I don't really kno what you talkin bout

 

[mono]

thats what i mean, like a plugin that adds an audio player to the windows explorer.

 

[MagnaOpera]

sort of like what they have on macintosh? like where you click on a file and then in the window the little quicktime bar pops up and you can just preview the thing without any hassle.. i been looking for something like this too but haven't found anything yet..

 

[The Arkitekt]

to my knowledge what you lookin for don't exist. You can use a player like Winamp and set it to not pop up over all other windows when you open a file.

so it will be running but the only place you'll see it is the taskbar and you can just keep click w/e files you want and they will play. If you never used winamp, try it out cuz it kills other stuff like windows media player for audio

 

[MagnaOpera]

i mean i know when i'm looking through my drum sounds in FL studio it'll preview each file as I select them, but it don't really work (to my knowledge) when selecting say, a full song..

 

[DJ Excellence]

Winamp toolbar and FoxyTunes can do this.

 

[mono]

i thought winamp toolbar was for internet explorer only, ill have to check it out.

also found this list of wave browsers on kvr

fastwav - http://www.sonicspot.com/fastwav/fastwav.html

quickwav - http://www.softlookup.com/preview/dis19154.html

wave explorer - http://arrowsoft.ifrance.com/arrowsoft/wex_eng.html

wavebrowser - http://audio.newfreeware.com/programs/669/

wavetect - http://www.s-i-n.com/tunes/WAVetect.exe

 

[Manji]

why????

 

[mono]

because sometimes i dont know what beat or sample is in a folder, and i want to figure that out quickly without having to load the session or open winamp

 

[eldiablo]

windows 98 and 2000 used to do that. when you clicked on a file in a folder a play button would pop up to the left in the folder in the detals.
i was kinda upset they took that out.

there might be some kinda of folder add ons?