Hover over music icon does not play

[Colin Law]

On 11 November 2011 14:10, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi all.  Am using Ubuntu 11.10 and genome classic. In!0.04 I could hover the
> courser over a music file in my music folder and it would play without
> opening up a player on the desktop.. It was pretty handy when making video's
> to be able to do that to remember what a tune sounds like before loading
> into the editor.
> Is this no longer available or can I enable it in some way?   Thanks for any
> help.       Doug

Google leads me to believe that this has been removed from Gnome 3.
It is suggested that installing gnome-sushi will provide this feature,
though I have not tried it and google suggests it does not work for
all.  See
http://askubuntu.com/questions/67132/how-can-i-play-songs-by-just-hovering-the-mouse-on-them

Colin