hover over music files

[G.]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Graham Watkins
<shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 01/06/12 06:58, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>> On 05/31/2012 04:05 PM, Graham Watkins wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30/05/12 22:29, Ric Moore wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 05/30/2012 03:39 PM, Graham Watkins wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30/05/12 07:30, G. wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One of my favorite little features in Ubuntu has been the ability to
>>>>>> hover over a music file and have the song play without having to open
>>>>>> Rhythm Box Banshee etc. This feature is not working in my install of
>>>>>> 12.04. Did it disappear from Ubuntu altogether?
>>>>>>
>>>>
> Snipped
>
>>> Caja 1.2.2
>>
>> Huh, not finding it in synaptic ...time to google. Thanks, Ric
>
>
> This may be because Mate is actually provided by Mint rather than Ubuntu.
>
> See the following:
>
> http://ubuntuportal.com/2012/04/how-to-install-mate-desktop-in-ubuntu-12-04ubuntu-11-10.html
>
> There may be other ways of getting it but this is how I got it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Graham
>
>
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This worked for me and is very easy to do:

sudo apt-get install gnome-sushi

http://askubuntu.com/questions/72043/audio-preview-gone

Click on the song and hit the space bar.  Very cool!

garyk