Does anyone know why audio previews in Nautilus don’t work for me? They work for Jono and we’re both running Ubuntu Dapper. I remember him showing me some Ubuntu features way back around the time of the Warty stable and Hoary development versions whereby if you mouse-over an audio file in Nautilus, you get an audio preview, right there in Nautilus.
I run a pretty much stock Ubuntu configuration and don’t mess with audio and Nautilus preview settings, but still, I’ve never had this feature work for me and seeing Jono’s machine a few times recently reminded me of this fact. Bastard 😉
As per default, my preview configuration plays audio previews for local files. Does anyone know of any other issues that might be responsible?
Anyway, I can’t complain too much about Jono as he took 2 hours out of his day to teach me about GStreamer so I can help out with Jokosher and he also rescued my Everybody Loves Eric Raymond t-shirt which I left at LUG Radio Live.
Have you got sox installed? I think that’s what does it.
This will work.
sudo apt-get install sox lame mpg321 vorbis-tools flac flac123
It only does previews for local files; for remote files (e.g. over nfs) you need to go into nautilus’s preferences. You may also have to do this for files above a certain size…..
it wasnt working for me either. i read these comments and installed the packages, opened my home folder (nautilus) went to edit > preferences, made sure preview was turned on, went to system > preferences > sound and turned esd back on. restarted and it works now.