File associations in Vista

Narkis · 16th June 2007, 07:32

Hello. I recently got a laptop with Windows Vista, which reinforced my hate for anything Microsoft made. Anyway, I installed Winamp, which works perfectly, with one exception: I can't get Vista to accept that I want winamp to be the default music player. File associations are set on the Winamp preferences, but music files still open with the Media player. There aren't even the options "Play/Enqueue in Winamp" when I right-click on the files. Folders containing music files have these options however. Anything I can do for this?

glorybound9 · 29th June 2007, 21:52

I work in a Salvation Army Computer Lab. One of my students came in with a new Vista computer and a CD he could not play. CD had AIFF files. Windows Media Player provides no codecs to play them, Winamp does (I have Winamp on the computer I use with XP). I downloaded Winamp to his computer and experienced the same problem described above. Additionally, I set program defaults and file associations to Winamp but Vista still only gives the option to open Windows Media Player. I had to navigate to the folder on the CD and access each audio file individually. Since he is a computer newbie this is not the way I wanted to tell him how to play his audio CD! Is there any way to unlock the Microsoft lockdown on non-MS software like Winamp?

Narkis · 29th June 2007, 22:34

I found the solution to this problem by luck. Go to Control Panel -> Default programs -> Associate a file type or protocol with a program.(wording might be different, I don't use the English version of Windows) After that just choose the program you want to associate with each filetype, it's kinda tedious but it works.

16th June 2007, 07:32	#1
Narkis Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	File associations in Vista Hello. I recently got a laptop with Windows Vista, which reinforced my hate for anything Microsoft made. Anyway, I installed Winamp, which works perfectly, with one exception: I can't get Vista to accept that I want winamp to be the default music player. File associations are set on the Winamp preferences, but music files still open with the Media player. There aren't even the options "Play/Enqueue in Winamp" when I right-click on the files. Folders containing music files have these options however. Anything I can do for this?

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29th June 2007, 21:52	#2
glorybound9 Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1	I work in a Salvation Army Computer Lab. One of my students came in with a new Vista computer and a CD he could not play. CD had AIFF files. Windows Media Player provides no codecs to play them, Winamp does (I have Winamp on the computer I use with XP). I downloaded Winamp to his computer and experienced the same problem described above. Additionally, I set program defaults and file associations to Winamp but Vista still only gives the option to open Windows Media Player. I had to navigate to the folder on the CD and access each audio file individually. Since he is a computer newbie this is not the way I wanted to tell him how to play his audio CD! Is there any way to unlock the Microsoft lockdown on non-MS software like Winamp?

29th June 2007, 22:34	#3
Narkis Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2	I found the solution to this problem by luck. Go to Control Panel -> Default programs -> Associate a file type or protocol with a program.(wording might be different, I don't use the English version of Windows) After that just choose the program you want to associate with each filetype, it's kinda tedious but it works.