[Bug 40441] audio-preview in nautilus is actually unpleasant

[Eric Feliksik]

Public bug reported:

Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:

I think the audio-preview thing (hold your mouse one an audio-file in
nautilus, hear it playing) should not be enabled by default. I
understand this is a very subjective topic, but anyway:

1) Audio files can not be simultaneously previewed like images can. You always want to listen only one file at a time.
2) previewing an audio-file is interrupting in the sense that you can't ignore it. You can ignore an image thumbnail in nautilus.
3) If I want to hear a file, I open it in totem. Then I can scroll the track, and switch between files faster. The only time I use the nautilus-audio-preview feature is when it's activated accidentily, and then it's just alarming me (as in frightening/shocking). 

It's an interesting feature, but I personally don't think it's a very
good idea after all. Beyond my given objections, it doesn't offer
anything I can't do with totem.

On top of that, if I *want* to use the feature, it doesn't even always
work, so trying to use it is more frustrating than just using totem. (I
understand that the last point is not against the feature itself, as
that bug could be fixed - and should be, if we want to keep this
behaviour).

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audio-preview in nautilus is actually unpleasant
https://launchpad.net/bugs/40441