Looking for simple rapid sorting with preview

[audiomatt]

I'm dreaming of an application that does two things:

previews files
tags files with hotkeys

I can't seem to hack anything together that does what I want. Here's the Details.

Drag in a folder, and a window with two panes appears. On the left you have all the files, on the right you have a preview. The first file in the list is highlighted. The preview for it appears (sound plays if necessary.). The user can tag that file (or skip it) with a hotkey (not a key combo) and the application automatically highlights the next file and previews it. Boom Boom Boom Boom and I'm done with my downloads folder in no time.

I just want to be previewing and hitting keys. No shortcuts with weird modifiers, no services, no qlmanager that doesn't play audio files automatically, no super slow automator actions. I want to slam through my downloads folder at light speed.


Can anyone help? Heck Id pay a few bucks for someone to hack it together in swift. I can't figure that **** out at all.

 

[Partron22]

I've written such an App, using C plus AppleScript. It previews photos, and lets me permanently rotate them, or tag for further work. It uses a couple of Apple's private APIs, and knows far more about preview than Apple wants us to know. Thus, I will never release it.
It also does show-without-replacement slideshows, which is something Apple should have implemented for pix and playlists 15 years ago.

 

[audiomatt]

I've written such an App, using C plus AppleScript. It previews photos, and lets me permanently rotate them, or tag for further work. It uses a couple of Apple's private APIs, and knows far more about preview than Apple wants us to know. Thus, I will never release it.
It also does show-without-replacement slideshows, which is something Apple should have implemented for pix and playlists 15 years ago.

It seems so incredibly obvious

 

[Partron22]

Someone else may have done it without the 'cheats' I used.