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[ffutures]

This evening I put today's charity shop bargain CD into my iBook. All I wanted to do was play some music.

However, Apple recently rolled out the latest iTunes update, so the actual procedure goes something like this...

iTunes opens.
iTunes shows me a load of screens related to web sites that don't interest me.
I press the "play" button, thinking in my naiveté that it will play the bloody CD. No - it starts playing a tutorial on how to use [expletive deleted] iTunes.
Exit that.
Finally I get a list of tracks on the CD, and I actually get to hear Glass's "Songs From Liquid Days," which is not at all bad although the lyrics are just a little OTT.

Is there any way I can get VLC media player to be my default DVD player?

Comments

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Do you mean iTunes?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, sorry.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Try this:

1) Open the CD in the finder, select one of the music files, and drag it to your desktop.
2) Do File: Get Info (or Apple-i)
3) Select "Open With" and the app you want to use instead, and click on the "Change All" button in the Get Info box.

This would work for any other kind of file, but iTunes is tricky.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Oh the hours of my life I have wasted trying to get itunes to do the things it is supposed to do. And the number of times I have wanted to smash it with a hammer.

Slightly more constructively, this ~might~ answer your question:

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-845514.html

At first glance it seems not to be as easy as one might have thought.

Again. I recommend the hammer.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, that works, you have to tell VLC to open the disk for some reason but it's still better than messing around with iTunes. Also set it up as the default for DVDs.

Thanks, should have realised it would be something like that.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

That's odd. I use iTunes every day, and I don't recall seeing a list like that for incremental updates.

I've seen it for major updates (ie. version 6->7), but then I've seen the same thing when I updated iWork from 06 to 08 — and I was actually glad to have the chance to watch a tutorial (or not) on the new features.

I don't know about making VLC a default DVD player, but then I had no idea iTunes could play DVDs — I've always used DVD Player. (Well, usually I use a real DVD player, because it's all-region and I have a lot of Chinese documentaries on DVD.)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Itunes doesn't play DVDs - but while I was messing around with defaults I changed the default for DVDs too, since Apple's DVD player isn't very good.

I should maybe add that it's a year or so since I played any CDs on the laptop so it may have been a major update.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

That's it, then. There was a major update in the last year.