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Quick Look on OS X 10.9 not showing title, artist and album mp3 tags anymore


QL on Mavericks appears not to be displaying ID3 tags anymore, only duration time and the illustration of mp3 files. It used to display more before :

https://i.sstatic.net/jOswp.png

Here is the version information of the plugin /System/Library/QuickLook/Audio.qlgenerator which is involved :

<key>BuildAliasOf</key>
<string>QuickLook</string>
<key>BuildVersion</key>
<string>2</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>5.0</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>622.7</string>
<key>ProjectName</key>
<string>QuickLookPlugins_generators</string>
<key>SourceVersion</key>
<string>622007000000000</string>

PS : I already tried fixing QL following this : http://www.cnet.com/news/fixing-quick-look-issues-in-os-x/ ; nothing's changed.

Could anybody send me a plugin version from a prior OS X version that displays correctly the ID3 tags please ?

-hymced


Solution

  • qlBitRate is your friend. To install, download the latest zip, unzip it and drop qlBitRate.qlgenerator in ~/Library/QuickLook (you may have to create the directory first).

    I just tested it and got name, artist, album and time shown for a few mp3:s of mine on osx Yosemite (10.10.2). It might be missing the album artwork, but I haven't taken the time to dig up a file I know has that embedded.