When I open the viewer pane and click on an audio file (mp3, wav etc) I would like it to use the Windows Media Player activex control to playback. Since installing QuickTime, however, everything plays back via QT.
How can I change the activex default player back to WMP?
I've read the thread on fixing viewer playback but that didn't cover this specific issue. I've also played around in the plugin settings dialog but can't find any way to do this so I'm assuming it's a Windows setting (I'm running Win7). But where is it?
Assigning the filetype(s) in question to WMP may be enough to make WMP assign its ActiveX control to them again.
Failing that, you could try disabling WMP and then enabling it again, which I think you can do via Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows features on and off.
QuickTime used to have a control panel which let you define which filetypes (MIME types) it should take over but, at least last time I let any Apple software near my PC (which was over a year ago so I may be out of date), Apple seem to have helpfully removed the control panel, at least on Vista/Win7 installs.
(( @Ving, i still havent understood the problem statement fully: in your Dopus10 viewer pane, QT is the "embedded" media player when you click (NOT double-click!) on mp3? ))
Yes, that's right. A single-click will play the file in the viewer pane with QT. A double-click will open Windows Media Player as it is the default player for mp3s. I just want the single-click to use the WMP activex control instead of QT.
I will try Leo's suggestion and turn the WMP off/on via the Windows Features control panel and see if it grabs the association back.
i am no apple chicken so i've installed QTP full version to see what's going on. Taking *.mp3 as example, a default installation of QTP doesnt touch the mp3 settings for the default player (double-click on mp3). But it's true that the viewer pane will play the mp3 with embedded QTP (single-click on mp3) if in Dopus10 the ActiveX is activated for *.mp3.
So i installed WMP9 (default install settinx)... ...and the ActiveX plays with embedded WMP6.4 (mplayer2.exe) on my WinXP máquina.
That QuickTime control panel doesn't exist on modern versions of Windows, unfortunately. (Unless Apple have brought it back in the last year or so.)
Installing QuickTime on Vista or Win7 will, as far as I could tell, obliterate the MIME/ActiveX settings for PNG, MP3 and various other filetypes, making QuickTime's awful ActiveX control take-over those filetypes in IE. (Which includes messing up how IE displays standalone PNG image URLs. This is the main reason I now refuse to install QuickTime or iTunes.)
But we already knew pretty much all of this from earlier in the thread...
Re-installing the WMP Windows components fixed it, although I no longer have QT installed. (just removing it didn't fix the problem though, I had to do the WMP re-install anyway)
So now it plays an mp3 with the WMP activex plugin in the viewer pane, which is great ^^ If I select multiple files though it will only play the last one selected and cycle round that file, rather than play through the list. Is this the expected behaviour? Is there a way to get it to play through the list? (other than clicking the next arrow ).
The viewer pane only shows/plays the file you last selected. (Technically, the file with the keyboard focus. It doesn't have to be selected.)
Opus has a picture slideshow feature but nothing similar for MP3 files.
If you want to play several MP3s in a row then you need to use a music player. e.g. Drag & drop the files on a music player, or right-click them and choose the "Enqueue" or "Add to Playlist" options, or whatever your installed music player(s) provide in the menu.
[quote="Ving"]If I select multiple files[/quote]A quick "audio files viewer" for the current folder you're in is 1by1 directory player. The EXTREME advantage of that 155KB-sized powerful beast that it launches fast, reads all kind of formats and you dont have to select files or right-click on anything. (you can, but you dont need to, so i dont.)
create a Dopus button and that's it. Apart from 1by1, i also have other players which i use whenever i want to: foobar2000, WMP9/10/11, MPC Home Cinema, VLC, and most recently Apple's QuickTime Player. For audio playback i either use Dopus viewer pane, or instead click on the 1by1 Dopus button to load the whole folder as automatic playlist, or foobar2000.
OK, good to know that the viewer just plays the file with the keyboard focus. I do use external audio players anyway, was just curious to know what Dopus could and couldn't do. Thanks, Leo.
Plunder, I'm interested by the idea of a button that launches an external player and plays the contents of the current directory / selected directory. Is that functionality part of 1by1 or could that work with any other media player? (i.e. WMP and Winamp)
Hi Ving,
My favourite Player is Aimp3. It plays all files in a directory with the following code.
For other players you'll have to check which command your player needs from a commandline to do it.
Aimp3 is more than i need or want.. and it is not an error-tolerant media player. i have a great test set of error test files and it fails on all of them whereas 1by1 can play them all: (sreenshot of Aimp3)
@Ving
follow the links given in my earlier post. the button code is given there; yes, it is functionality and product philosopy of 1by1. you have an explorer interface like windows explorer, that's why nagivating folders becomes very natural. makes things like playlists obsolete. great concept!! please just try it for 1-2 days. me too, i have tried kundal's mentioned product
Virtually all of the music players can be easily configured to play the selected files, although the exact command you need differs between players. Stick with whatever is your player of choice already, unless it turns out to be one of the few players without this ability. There's probably no reason to change to another music player just because of this.
Maybe it's a handy thing to have as a fallback, in case you encounter a broken files that cannot be fixed/replaced, and maybe it does everything else that you want/need and thus is a great choice for you, but it seems strange to keep a set of corrupt audio files and choose your day-to-day music player based on whether or not it can play those broken files.
so i've installed QTP full version to see what's going on. Taking *.mp3 as example, a default installation of QTP doesnt touch the mp3 settings for the default player (double-click on mp3). But it's true that the viewer pane will play the mp3 with embedded QTP (single-click on mp3) if in Dopus10 the ActiveX is activated for *.mp3.
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Apple's QuickTime Player. For audio playback i either use Dopus viewer pane, or instead click on the 1by1 Dopus button to load the whole folder as automatic playlist, or foobar2000.
