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Applian has altered all my music files

johnincrete
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Posted December 27, 2012 at 9:29AM

To watch a couple of .FLV files, I downloaded the latest version of the player which turns out to be Applian. Very nice. But now I find that all music files have been altered so that the type is Applian Media File with .wav or .mp3 in brackets. I have deleted Applian but the type remains. Is there a way I can remove Applian from the type to leave it as .wav or .mp3 as it was before.
There are literally 100's of files. When I converted some .wav to .mp3 using Switch, the same Applian type appeared even though the program has been deleted. So presumably Applian has changed something basic.

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RussB78

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 11:13AM

Open a folder of songs and right click on a song choose properties, you will see what the song opens with and have the oppertunity to change it, just use the browse button and make your choice of whatever program you wish to use.

This choice will effect all your songs. you can also do the same thing for Films Oor Videos if you need to.

Best Regards

Russell

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Woolwell

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 12:11PM

As RussB78 has stated it appears that the file associations have been changed and need to be put back as before. OS?

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johnincrete

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 2:22PM

The songs already open with Windows Media PLayer which is OK. It is the text in the file type that I want to change. Thus we have a typical entry in Explorer:

Fiste there is an icon that looks like the right pointing arrow in WMP but it is enclosed in what looks like earphones. Then we have the song title that hasn't changed. Then in "type" we have "Applian Media File (.mp3) The rest of the deatils are not changed.

What I want to do is get rid of the "Applian Media File" and leave just the mp3 as it used to be

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Woolwell

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 2:42PM

The file association should change it back. Right click on any of the applian medial file then choose open with and then choose default program and then select the music player that you want.

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johnincrete

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 4:34PM

Woolwell When I select open with, I don't get a default option - it just opens it.

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johnincrete

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 4:35PM

Woolwell When I select open with, I don't get a default option - it just opens it.

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Woolwell

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Posted December 27, 2012 at 4:37PM

Are you using XP?

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johnincrete

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Posted December 28, 2012 at 3:00PM

Yes I'm XP sp3.

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Woolwell

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Posted December 28, 2012 at 4:25PM

My initial instructions were for W7. You need to change your file association. Read this at the bottom of the page.

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johnincrete

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Posted December 29, 2012 at 2:03PM

I'm not sure what I did because the description in the help file and what was displayed did not match. However, I have got rid of the applian bit.

Thanks Woolwell

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