Saturday, February 14, 2009

mp3 and wav as WinAmp Media File

While sorting files based on type in Windows explorer, both mp3 and wav files were being listed as WinAmp Media file. To prevent this, googled and adopted a similar strategy as given in the WinAmp forums:
  1. Remove the mp3 and wav files associations from WinAmp preferences (Ctrl-P in WinAmp to reach preferences, File Types on left pane).
  2. In Windows Explorer, Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types tab, Click New, Enter mp3 extension. Here, if it is already associated with some other app, it will complain. Then you need to remove the association from the other app...
  3. Click Advanced button at the bottom, delete all the Actions, create two new actions - Action Play with Application used to perform field set as
    "C:\Program Files\Winamp\winamp.exe" "%1"
    and Action Enqueue in WinAmp with the field set as
    "C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe" /ADD "%1"
  4. Note of course that you need to put in the correct path to winamp.exe on your system, and that if the %1 is not within quotes, you will come to grief with any long filenames!

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