Context menu: Play option

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    Context menu: Play option


    I had that option in my Vista. It was the 'Play' option in the Windows Explorer context menu. With mp3 files and another sound file. It used a internal Windows player to play the musics. Not Windows Media Player or my default mp3 player (Winamp)

    Now with Windows 7 this option is gone. How can I add it back?

    Thanks.
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  2. Posts : 823
    OS
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    There is option "show winamp in context menu" in file associations tab; you've must turned it off somehow...
    I don't use winamp, but I saw option in context menu on my friends computer...
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  3. Posts : 44
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    Thanks Sassa.

    But I don't think it's related to Winamp.

    The option you're talking about it's on Winamp and checked. It says:

    Winamp Preferences > General Preferences > File Types:
    "Show Winamp in the folder context menus in Windows Explorer"

    The options that appears from Winamp are: Play in Winamp and Enqueue in Winamp.
    All the options use the Winamp player.

    The context option I'm looking for it's just 'Play', It opens a small player just with one button Play/Stop and with a music length bar. Windows visual. Without any options/menu.

    The strange. I never installed another mp3/audio player in my computer. And if that was the case, if it was a program it would be installed (like all the others) after I upgraded to Windows 7.

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  4. Posts : 823
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    I have play option in context menu and when I choose that media player opens...
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  5. Posts : 259
    Windows7 x64 7600 16385
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    saulob said:
    I had that option in my Vista....

    Now with Windows 7 this option is gone. How can I add it back?

    Thanks.
    I had a similar problem. I wanted to use Irfanview to view jpg's and Photoshop to Edit jpg's. This was simple in xp but apparently the feature was removed in Vista. I found a program that let's you edit the context menu and put the options back. Its called Default Programs Editor. Its free and you can download it here:

    Home | Default Programs Editor

    Good Luck!
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    Subsonic said:
    I had a similar problem. I wanted to use Irfanview to view jpg's and Photoshop to Edit jpg's. This was simple in xp but apparently the feature was removed in Vista. I found a program that let's you edit the context menu and put the options back. Its called Default Programs Editor. Its free and you can download it here:

    Home | Default Programs Editor

    Good Luck!
    File associations can be changed in default programs also...
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  7. Posts : 259
    Windows7 x64 7600 16385
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    Sassa said:
    File associations can be changed in default programs also...
    Yes, but you can't use default programs to assign different actions to the file type. When I double click or right click on a jpg, and select irfanview, it opens with irfanview; when I right click and select edit, it opens in Photoshop.
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    Thank you guys. I know that I can edit the context menu.

    The problem is that I don't know what was the program Windows Vista was using. It's not a player I'm using. I only use Winamp. And Winamp doesn't have this option.

    I thought it was a inside Windows Vista program. But now I don't know.

    Does anyone knows?
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  9. Posts : 823
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    It was compact mode in media player...
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  10. Posts : 139
    windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
       #10

    as an alternative to what u want to do, u can press alt+p to get the preview pane and then play the file in the preview pane
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Context menu: Play option-preview.png  
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