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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: Rud on February 28, 2006, 04:06:03 AM

Title: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: Rud on February 28, 2006, 04:06:03 AM

never had this issue before, if i download a file thats mp3 off a web page it saves on the PC as a movie file for windows media instead of for Sonique (my mp3 program)

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: Suga Foot on February 28, 2006, 09:45:29 AM

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: K A I N on February 28, 2006, 10:12:20 AM

Quote from: Adon on February 28, 2006, 09:45:29 AM

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: Rud on February 28, 2006, 10:38:40 AM

believe it or not, i dont like firefox, it still has issues to iron out for me...i use both on and off (ie and firefox) but 9/10 times ill use IE :)

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: Jome on February 28, 2006, 05:21:47 PM

What do you mean, IE changes the file extension of the file, or is it that the wrong program opens it ??

WMP probably stole the right to open all music and media files, go into WMP settings and disallow WMP to open mp3s, make sure Sonique is your default mp3 player in settings.

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: Woodrow on March 01, 2006, 09:40:29 AM

The same thing happend to me!!!

I'm not a big firefox fan either, and now I have to right click and save as otherwise it uses quicktime to open up any mp3 I download.

I've tried chaning quicktime and all options in IE but none worked.

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: The Watcher on March 01, 2006, 04:55:43 PM

open up windows explorer
goto tools -> folder options
select the file types tab
scroll down until you see: MP3    MP3 File
select it, then hit the change button
then select the program you want to use to listen to mp3s, if its not in the list hit the browse button and find it

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: Woodrow on March 01, 2006, 08:25:45 PM

Quote from: The Watcher on March 01, 2006, 04:55:43 PM

open up windows explorer
goto tools -> folder options
select the file types tab
scroll down until you see: MP3    MP3 File
select it, then hit the change button
then select the program you want to use to listen to mp3s, if its not in the list hit the browse button and find it

Says winamp, but IE still opens mp3's as .mpeg files...

Thanks for the try tho! I never tried that one out before.

Title: Re: downloading an mp3, IE keeps making it save as a Movie File...why?!
Post by: K A I N on March 01, 2006, 09:46:50 PM

Try

Internet Options > Programs (Tab) > Reset Web Settings  :poke: