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Title: [solved]How to make MC the default player?
Post by: kurushi on May 04, 2016, 12:08:51 pm

Hi,
Anytime i need to "open with" MC for any audio because iTunes seems to be the god on my mac is there's a way to make MC my default player?

I am pretty new on mac...

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: How to make MC the default player?
Post by: blgentry on May 04, 2016, 12:18:41 pm

You can change the defaults for individual file types pretty easily.  See #2 in this article:

http://osxdaily.com/2013/08/08/change-default-application-open-files-mac-os-x/

However, I don't do this for MC.  Why?  Because if I want to listen to music, MC is already open and I navigate through my albums, songs, etc with MC.  That's what MC is for!

If I want to play a file "on demand" by clicking on it in the file system, that normally means it's a temporary file that I don't want to use inside of MC.  So I have these files associated with VLC for on demand playback.  This is the best of both worlds for me.  Your uses and desires may differ from mine.

Brian.

Title: Re: [solved]How to make MC the default player?
Post by: kurushi on May 05, 2016, 11:55:47 am

Thank you bigentry exactly what i was looking for :)
Have seen this option before  (cause i often change the MC icon with each update but haven't paid so much attention to it)

Yep i don't use MC like this but maybe you can also choose to not add new file played on MC too but well for this thats right vlc is also ok :)

Anyway thanks to you am a better happy mac user now :D