How to chose your default media player?

Jeff Strouse · Post by **Jeff Strouse** » 22 Oct 2004 6:43 pm

I just added NERO to my hard drive, which is the software program that came with my DVD writer. However, it has "taken over" somehow....now, when I open "My Music" or "My Video", all the songs or selections have the NERO icon by them, and NERO seems to be the default player in my system. Any time I click on a song, it brings up the NERO player, instead of RealPlayer.

How can I get my system to recogniae RealPlayer back as the default player again?

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 22 Oct 2004 6:49 pm

If you open your Nero player there should be a menu somewhere that indicates which media files that's associated with it. Uncheck the ones you don't want Nero to play, then open your Real Player and do the opposite,- check the media files you want to play in it.

Steinar

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Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 23 Oct 2004 6:39 am

And, if the above suggestion somehow fails to work, go into Windows Explorer, click on Tools/Folder Options/File Types and scroll down to the extensions you want to change, and simply delete them from the list.

What will then happen is that for each of those file types you double click on to open, Windows will prompt you and ask what app you want to use to open the file. You then browse to the folder and application (the app's .exe file) and click it and accept the selection by clicking OK or whatever it says.

You will have established a new "file type association" for that file type.

Nero has never shown me anything, btw. Maybe that's why it's often distributed as "bundled software". I don't like "RealPlayer" much, either, but don't get me started

[This message was edited by Dave Potter on 23 October 2004 at 07:42 AM.]

Jeff Strouse · Post by **Jeff Strouse** » 23 Oct 2004 9:15 am

Thanks guys. I use Real Player, simply because I'm used to it. I don't like Windows Media Player, because it always seems to not be able to play a complete video (it cuts out the last part of a video, even though the audio portion still plays).

Dave Potter · Post by **Dave Potter** » 24 Oct 2004 5:06 am

<< I don't like Windows Media Player, because it always seems to not be able to play a complete video (it cuts out the last part of a video, even though the audio portion still plays).

That's a classic symptom of a corrupted file. If you're implying that it will play in RealPlayer but not in MP, I can't explain that.

My issue with RP is with streaming media. I've never been able to use it successfully to download anything "streaming" - it spends a lot of time "buffering", plays a second or two of the media, then goes back to buffering, etc. Probably my dial-up connection, but, that's what I use, so I just avoid RP. Media Player does it all, and does it well. And functional compatibility is essentially guaranteed, since it's a Windows component.

[This message was edited by Dave Potter on 24 October 2004 at 06:10 AM.]