orrinfacey01: A quick way to open a URL in QuickTime Player

Thursday, June 16, 2011

A quick way to open a URL in QuickTime Player

I regularly listen to the Internet broadcast of a local radio station. To get it, I have to go their website, and then click on a button to open the online broadcast. It is in a Windows Media Player format. QuickTime Player opens and starts streaming.

Here is how I got to access it by just double-clicking an icon on the Desktop.

The 'obvious' way would be to drag the URL to the Desktop and create a .webloc file. But there were two problems with that.

The URL starts with mms:// and if one tries to open it directly from inside QuickTime Player, it does not recognize it. It does, however, open and play the stream if I use http:// instead.

However, the corresponding .webloc opens in Safari (or whatever other default browser is set), and doing Get Info and setting it to open with QuickTime Player has no effect.

Enter AppleScript. I created a very small script (you need to put in your correct URL): ...