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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-28-03 03:33 PM
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Quicktime sucks!
I have it on my emulated windows system.

I have wav files using CoolEdit as a default player. (confirmed this in file associations)

In a browser window, I go to play a clip.

Quicktime hijacks and plays it in its own window.

I never told quicktime to make it the default player.

When I go to uninstall, QUicktime proclaims that uninstalling it ca make applications malfunction.

Forget you apple, if you're as sloppy as microsoft is.

Oh, I use windows emulation because of compuserve. That's soon going to change too.
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Paul1574 Donating Member (212 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-28-03 03:35 PM
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1. i agree....
the only thing i hate more are real media files....both these mess up my system so bad....grrrrr
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dwckabal Donating Member (854 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-28-03 03:42 PM
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2. Go to the Quictime control panel
and uncheck the .wav file association
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-28-03 03:49 PM
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3. Guess what?
Edited on Fri Nov-28-03 03:50 PM by HypnoToad
It's already not checked. When I installed it, I told it to associate ONLY Macintosh file types. The install process made it quite clear at the time what it wanted to make default. I did not make .wav default to Quicktime.

Of course, I unchecked it anyway. Made no difference. :cry:

I appreciated the help though. Under normal circumstances you'd be spot-on. When I'm involved, things are never normal. :-)

Oh well. Applesauce happens.
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MojoKrunch Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-28-03 04:47 PM
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5. Did you check in your browser?
Isn't there usually a "use X-application" MIME-type window that tells the browser which app to use?

You said:
In a browser window, I go to play a clip.
What browser are you using?
And what are you expecting to happen when you click on the clip?
For it to launch CoolEdit?

If you click on a .wav file in "explorer" does it launch CoolEdit?

Mojo

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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-28-03 04:06 PM
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4. Lose the emulation then try again
That doesn't sound typical for QT, and a lot of emulation software is...quirky.
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