Audacity Forum

This seems to be part of the solution:
When you search for audacity to use as the default program to open a sound file....
you need to open the "Programs (x86)" folder
as it is not in the "Programs" folder

when http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download is opened
a window says the file ccsetup326.exe from filehippo.com will be downloaded
Does that sound correct?

no. running the audacity*.reg did not allow for audacity to be selected as the
"open with" default.

the only option left, (so far), would be to run that reg cleaner progam
but i am a bit scared to do that!

oh, i see!
the ".txt" was not showing up in Windows Explorer
I changed to a different program, (Laplink)
and was able to change the suffix to just "reg" and ran it
now I will see if it works!

Gale: downloading http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=5279 results in a text file with the following information: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTApplicationsaudacity.exe] [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAudacity.Project] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAudacity.ProjectOpenWithListaudaci...

gale:
thank you for your response
changing the name of auadacity.exe did not help bring it up in the "open with" options
i will try the other options

I am trying to make this WIN-8 machine select Audacity as the default program to open my audio files. Audacity is not even listed as one of the available programs, (even under "look for another app on this PC)! Any suggestions?

Yes. Thank you. Importing, rather than opening, keeps only one instance of Audacity running.

If audacity is loaded, and then we try to click on (e.g.) on mp3 file from the explorer window, there is an error message that "the system has detected another audacity running" And yet, when inside audacity, if we close down a music file (by clicking on the "X" in the left side of the music file, a...

Increasing the bit rate in the "Edit->Preferences->File Formats->MP3 Export Setup" up to a bit-rate of 256 did clear up the distortion that was occurring when trying to export an MP3 file that had been opened in Audacity. (The Project Rate was not less than the track being exported - 44100Hz). Thank...