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When I installed it, I didn’t see such an option.

And a little offtopic more: I want to say that foobar is nearly a dream of a player for me, so I hope that it would live and develop for a very, very long time. And I say: thank you very much, Peter Pawlowski!

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right click on a media file, open with, choose program..., find the program in the list or browse... to find it, check Always use this selected program to open this file. now do that for all your media file types
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right click on a media file, open with, choose program..., find the program in the list or browse... to find it, check Always use this selected program to open this file. now do that for all your media file types

  Doesn't work. At least when I launch it from Explorer everything is OK, but when I try to play or enque it from MAC? which is awfully desireble, WMPlayer do the things! 

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If you're not afraid of modifying registry try:
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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile]
@="Foobar2000 File"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile\shell]
@="enqueue"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile\shell\enqueue]
@="Enqueue in fb2k"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile\shell\enqueue\command]
@="\"D:\\foobar\\foobar2000.exe\" /add \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile\shell\play]
@="Play in fb2k"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile\shell\play\command]
@="\"D:\\foobar\\foobar2000.exe\" \"%1\""

Save as .reg and replace fb2k path with yours (backslashes should be replaced with \\, quotes with \")
Then to register some extension with it (.cue or .whatever):
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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.cue]
@="FoobarFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.bla]
@="FoobarFile"

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Thx, but it doesn't work with MPEG Audio Collection (MAC)...
Mayby smb. knows what to do?

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Are there any plans to include something that would register the audio types on install?

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Are there any plans to include something that would register the audio types on install?

Yeh, of course, I join plenum.

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Thx, but it doesn't work with MPEG Audio Collection (MAC)...
Mayby smb. knows what to do?

Did you associate .m3u with fb2k? Because it creates temporary playlist when launching files (at least 2.50 did, IIRC).

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Reply #8 –
If you want to install my icon pack it can associate files with foobar also.

http://qas.stanstrup.dk/audioicons

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Thx, but it doesn't work with MPEG Audio Collection (MAC)...
Mayby smb. knows what to do?

Did you associate .m3u with fb2k? Because it creates temporary playlist when launching files (at least 2.50 did, IIRC).

Well, I tried to write m3u, it doesn’t work.

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If you want to install my icon pack it can associate files with foobar also.

http://qas.stanstrup.dk/audioicons

Well it works all right, but unfortunately, only with enquing, as for playing (maybe you know, there are to functions in MAC: to play, and to enque) so as for playing, an it doesn’t play in foobar at all.

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And I want to ask again: when it will be possible to associate all the music files to foobar, as we (sorry for such an example) do with winamp?
(I mean while installing it)

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I also wish the installer could register the file types, since right clicking and choosing to always open the media type with Foobar2000 is a little tricky.

With the Sound Recorder installed on Win98 I had to use the following trick in order to have Foobar2000 associated with WAV files so that the damn Sound Recorder wouldn't steal the association on reboot:
In Win.ini:
SoundRec=Foobar2000 WAV Audio File,C:\WINDOWS\sndrec32.exe,picture

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Well, I tried to write m3u, it doesn’t work.

It does work here for both play and enq. Although it appears newer version use 'open' instead of 'play'.
So add this to reg file:
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile\shell\open]
@="Open in fb2k"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoobarFile\shell\open\command]
@="\"D:\\foobar\\foobar2000.exe\" \"%1\""

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Well, it seems to me that we don’t quite understand each other. 
As for explorer, I have such options there on the right click: to play with foobar, to enque to foobar, and everything works perfectly! But what do I want is to play the music files from the Mpeg Audio Collection program. That’s the thing I am trying to do.
(Sorry for causing so much trouble to you, ak!)

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But what do I want is to play the music files from the Mpeg Audio Collection program. That’s the thing I am trying to do.
(Sorry for causing so much trouble to you, ak!)

Well, no problem.
Actually I was talking about MAC as well. This thing (MAC) creates playlist off of selected tracks and launches it (if I get it right). So I associated .m3u with fb2k and I'm able to launch tracks (both play and enq) from MAC without prob.

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I also wish the installer could register the file types (...)

This proposal was HERE point 8. PP answered: "8. "maybe later""

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Reply #17 –
i made a simple batch script that will register filetypes with Foobar 2000, if anyone is interested.

from readme.txt:
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What It Does:
This script will associate MP3 MPC M3U and M3U8 files with Foobar 2000
and also change the file icons to the Foobar 2000 icons.
It will also add Play and Enqueue actions to Explorer context menus
for above filetypes.

Usage:
Drag and drop your Foobar2000.exe file onto foobar2k.cmd
Follow the instructions.

Warnings and stuff:
Use at your own risk!
Only tested on Windows 2000 Pro English with Service Pack 3.
Reg.exe has to be in the same folder as foobar2k.cmd or else it wont work at all.
(Reg.exe is a part of the NT 4 ResKit, which can also be found at
ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt40/i386/reg_x86.exe)

Files included in this package:
foobar2k.cmd (the script)
reg.exe (a commandline registry tool)
readme.txt (the file you are reading right now)
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fb2k_script.zip
(you might have to copy n paste the link)

if anyone makes any changes to the script, please let me know what you did,
but if it messes up your computer badly, i take absolutely no responsibility 

/kabniel
Ambience is everywhere.

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Reply #18 –
I've also made one with gui and uninstaller.

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Reply #19 –
it looks like your link is dead

edit: nevermind, works now

hmm, NSIS kicks DOS's rear end, why havent i heard of that before? 

/me goes to learn NSIS
Ambience is everywhere.

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hmm, NSIS kicks DOS's rear end

Yep, NSIS's kung-fu is strong.

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I've also made one with gui and uninstaller.

I could include associations in official installer, if you allow me to use parts of your NSIS script.

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Reply #22 –
Yes, sure.
List of all extensions fb2k can play is pretty long but I think it's possible to group them somehow.

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Reply #23 –
Thanks ak! It works just great! Very handy!

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Reply #24 –
Installer updated, includes XP manifest file + file association.