thank you for your bug report, the issue is fixed in Oneiric where the audio preview feature has been dropped
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/825751 Title: Sound preview should be stopped when a media player starts Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: In nautilus, the the user moves the mouse over a sound file, the file is played. If the user open that file, it starts playing in the associated multimedia player. But, the preview in nautilus continues. If the user moves the mouse over another file it starts playing that other file together with what is playing with the multimedia player resulting in a sound mess. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.1.4-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Sat Aug 13 12:31:03 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-12 (32 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/825751/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp