[Stephen_P]

I use iTunes to organize and play my music, and I love it. That said, I would like to disable it as the default player for Internet audio clips (MP3). Because what happens now is I will click on an audio sample link on eMusic, it will download a file to my desktop, import it into iTunes, play it in iTunes, force me to find and then delete it in iTunes, and then require me to delete the file from my desktop. That's a lot of work, making it not worthwhile to listen to audio samples (MP3 format) and preview music. So I've tried setting Real Player to be my default streaming audio player, but to no avail. And iTUnes does not have a setting within preferences to handle this dillema.
In short, I want to be able to listen to streaming MP3's without a file being downloaded to my computer or imported into iTunes. How can I do this? Oh, and if it helps, I should mention I use OmniWeb as my browser. Thanks!

[smax013]

You might try looking at the "MIME Settings..." in the Advanced tab of the Quicktime settings in System Prefs. I believe that iTunes "works" with Quicktime for this stuff...that is why you get both Quicktime and iTunes when you download iTunes I believe. Unchecking on of those settings might do it.

[Stephen_P]

(sigh) Alas, I tried, and it didn't work. I unchecked the MP3 box in the MIME settings and still no dice. Anybody out there have this problem? Overcame it?

[SteVoz]

this is just a guess but perhaps helpful..
if you reinstall real player or any other player you should have an option to set it as your default player at the end of the installation routine.

[Stephen_P]

yeah...nothing works. iTunes seems to be a "bully" program that takes over the process whether I want it to or not. Any other eMusic users out there?