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Estimated_Prophet
10-27-2001, 03:05 AM
How do I make XMMS the default player so if I click an icon in a folder it will play in XMMS? It keeps opening the MP3 in kde media and that doesn't work worth a damn.
Etherphyte
10-27-2001, 04:04 AM
Assuming you are using KDE, as they are opening in kde media:
Open up Control Center, and click on File Browsing. There is a subtab called File Associations. In that section, it will have listed known file types. open up the audio section, click on x-mp3. then add xmms, if it's not already there, and if it is there, change the order, so xmms is first.
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Malakin
10-27-2001, 05:30 AM
Just right click on an mp3 file and click "edit file type"
wraven
08-07-2002, 10:33 PM
Hello,
With all due respect, the solutions presented are not working (I am a n00b - kind of - used slackware many years ago, before XFree86). Did the "Edit File Type" and the KDE Control Panel stuff, and it still launches some crackwhore player embedded in the Konqueror file system viewer.

I am running RedHat 7.3 . MP3's play fine in XMMS when right-clicking and playing explicitly through XMMS, but cannot get them to play using XMMS by double-clicking.

Please help if you can...

Thanks,
Wraven

:D
chalk
08-07-2002, 10:43 PM
Right click on an mp3 file in konqueror. Select 'edit file type'. A window will pop up with 2 tabs, general and embedding. Click on the 'embedding' tab and select 'show file in separate viewer'. Click on the general tab. In the application preference order, make sure XMMS is at the top. Click ok.

Now left click the file in konqueror and XMMS should open and start playing the file.
roshern
08-07-2002, 10:46 PM
Make the changes (either under kde or by right-clicking) and restart. That should do the trick!
wraven
08-08-2002, 12:11 AM
Thank you all!!!

That did the trick. The "Embedded" options are what I had not done. Changed them and made it alllllll better :) .

I am beginning to see why so many people are using Linux these days. I've only had it installed for a few hourd and have about 50% of my "Windows" functionality available to me. I know I probably won't get to 100%, but that is OK. I won;t have to pay $300 for an OS either, will I? ;)

Thanks again to those who helped!

-Wraven