Firefox and playing .mp3's


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For a while, if I clicked on a link to an .mp3 file (Not illegal, www.tindeck.com, for example), it would come up in Firefox with a Quicktime progress bar. Recently, it stopped doing that, and I can't get them to play in Firefox anymore. I recently upgraded to QT7 Preview, but that hasn't made a difference?

Please say someone else has had this same problem...

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are you using an official 1.0x release or are you using the nightlies? There is a possible fix that I know of that can be tried in the nightly builds.

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Check to make sure QT is associated with mp3 files.

Open the Windows Control Panel > QuickTime > Browser Plug-in > MIME Setting... button and make sure that mp3 is ticked.

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What is your default program for playing MP3s?

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Creative PlayCenter. Don't ask, it was a default by the soundcard when I formatted. Could this be a problem?

are you using an official 1.0x release or are you using the nightlies? There is a possible fix that I know of that can be tried in the nightly builds.

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I'm using the official 1.0.4 build

Check to make sure QT is associated with mp3 files.

Open the Windows Control Panel > QuickTime > Browser Plug-in > MIME Setting... button and make sure that mp3 is ticked.

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I did, but I still get this:

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One braindead way to do it might be to delete (or at least move) the mimeTypes.rdf file in your Firefox profile folder. Deleting it would reset all the custom file type handling back to the defaults.

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Awesome! That worked fine. Now that it's working, should I go ahead and delete that file (I cut and pasted it to the desktop)?

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Deleting it is fine, you just may lose some of the other custom filetype handling if you had any set up, like having Firefox automatically open certain filetypes rather than asking where to download them. If you did have any set up, you can always change the settings on the download dialog as you come across them.

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