Audio preview in finder...

The audio preview in the finder on tiger showed up like a quicktime player with a progress bar u could move as u wanted. The new audio preview doesnt give u that option. Any way of changing it back to the old way?

I understand the preview floating pane is quite good for somethings; but it's not very good if you want to listen to a track from a certain point, and then go back to what you where doing previously in other areas of the computer. As soon as you click on another program other than finder, or another finder window the track stops, and the only other option is listening to it all the way from the beginning. This is really limiting and annoying, especially if your listening to long mixes or podcasts. I would really like to be able to choose the way you preview in the finder, i.e. choose the progress bar thing like it had in the old OS.

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