HowTo: Mouse over music preview in Ubuntu
I saw a clip in youtube few days back, a person showing off his Ubuntu with the features of mouse over music preview, which means by putting mouse cursor on top of the music file icon, it will start to play the song without the needs of playing the song in a music player. I was attracted by this features and it’s really useful when i want to search for song in a thousand song by just moving my mouse cursor one by one. I start to search around for the work around, i tried many ways suggested in forums and blog but i still cant make it work. However at last i manage to make it work by installing things below, but so far i only test it in Hardy Heron.
Things to be installed
- ubuntu-restricted-extras
- mpg123
- mpg123-esd
- pulseaudio-esound-compat
- vorbis-tools
You can install from synaptic or by the method below
$ sudo aptitude install ubuntu-restricted-extras mpg123-esd pulseaudio-esound-compat vorbis-tools
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