Foobar2000 Portable Defaults (Windows 7)

[Giddyguy]

Hey so I just installed Foobar2000 (man its great!) as a portable software so that i can use it with both my desktop and laptop. My question is how can I set defaults for it in the control panel so that it becomes my default music player. I have a dell keyboard with the music media key and i want it so that when I press it Foobar2000 opens instead of Windows Media Player. Usually installed programs show up in the default programs menu in control panel however because it is a portable version i guess its not showing up. How can I change this? Thanks!

[rustikles]

When you right click on an audio file and choose "open with..." there should be a list of programs. From there you can click "browse" and navigate to wherever the .exe for your portable foobar2000 is, and choose it.

[Giddyguy]

When you right click on an audio file and choose "open with..." there should be a list of programs. From there you can click "browse" and navigate to wherever the .exe for your portable foobar2000 is, and choose it.

yea I've done that for my .mp3's but that doesn't make it the default program for all music files. There are a lot to default so i was hoping there was a shortcut way like there is for regularly installed programs

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[rustikles]

yea I've done that for my .mp3's but that doesn't make it the default program for all music files. There are a lot to default so i was hoping there was a shortcut way like there is for regularly installed programs

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Not really, the best way for you is going to be choosing it as the default using the process I outlined above for all your music file types. There may be a way to choose all the music file types easily from windows "default programs" screen, but I don't know of one. 

 

If I understand correctly, the "regular programs" have some kind of checkbox during their installation to set as default. Since this is a portable version, it isn't that easy.

[LogicalDrm]

yea I've done that for my .mp3's but that doesn't make it the default program for all music files. There are a lot to default so i was hoping there was a shortcut way like there is for regularly installed programs

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The fast way is to install software to pc and check all those files you want to associate with like @rustikles said. That doesn't work with portable version and will revert if you do install and uninstall. So I don't know your reasoning using it as portable, but you can use same playlists/settings on both installations anyway if mediafiles are in same folderpaths.