QuickTime plays my MP3s but only sometimes...

SkylineUK · 14 May 2011

If I click on a web site forum where someone has posted a link to their song which is an MP3, QuickTime takes over and plays it instead of my default player Windows Media Player. But if I say, double click on an MP3 in a directory on my PC, Media Player opens and all is ok. In 'Default Programs/File Associations' the MP3 box is ticked for MP3 for Media Player and not ticked for QuickTime. So how is QuickTime managing to hijack MP3 sometimes?

SledgeDG · 15 May 2011

Quicktime and other Apple $%& isn't allowed on my computers so I can't check it myself.
This is, what I found:
Load Windows Media Player and set it as the default MP3 player(put a check mark beside MP3 in File Types, under Tools >Options)
If you find that the MP3 file type is *already* checked, uncheck it, apply, re-check it and apply

Hope that works for you

-DG

SkylineUK · 16 May 2011

Unfortunately I need QuickTime for a couple of applications (plugins to Sonar music program) otherwise I'd delete the bloody thing.

I can't find anything under Tools/Options??

If I go into Control Panel/Programs/Default Programs (or Windows button/Default Programs), under 'Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program' MP3 is already correctly designated to WMP, and under 'Set associations for a program' MP3 is not ticked for QuickTime. So all seems correct. But there must be something I'm missing...

SledgeDG · 16 May 2011

Ah well...to each his own....no "hostile take-over" fruits POS on my computer, that's for sure.

Try this, then:

If this is happening when you open links in web pages, we need to adjust MIME type settings rather than File type settings.
In QuickTime, go "Edit > Preferences > QuickTime preferences". Go into the Browser tab, and click the MIME settings button.

Expand the entries in the list, and uncheck all types of files that you don't want the QuickTime plugin to open. Click OK.

-DG

SkylineUK · 16 May 2011

Thanks DG, actually I'd already found and looked at that - MP3 is already unticked...

SkylineUK · 22 Jul 2011

This is still happening, despite all Quck Time preferences clearly showing that MP3s are NOT associated with QT but with Windows Media Player.

Has anyone any idea of a solution for this stubborn behaviur? (Aside from deleting stupid Quick Time - it is needed by another application).

Thanks.

SkylineUK · 13 Aug 2011

Bump.
Is this in fact a bug/'feature' in IE9? I don't recall getting this with IE8.

ALL settings in QT and WMP are set for the LATTER to play MP3s and not the former, but when it comes to playing an MP3 in a music forum for example, Quicktime always plays it!!! What the dickens can be causing this?

kado897 · 13 Aug 2011

If this is happening in a browser you need to disable the quicktime plugin.

J.R. · 13 Aug 2011

disregard, does not work with W7

SkylineUK · 13 Aug 2011

kado897 said:

If this is happening in a browser you need to disable the quicktime plugin.

I can't find a plugin tab or anything in IE9.