Audacity Forum

Due to a Windows limitation, "Open with" won't support more than one executable on the computer having the same name. To work round the problem, rename the Audacity Beta executable to something other than "audacity.exe" (for example "audacitybeta.exe"). You may also ne...

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stevethefiddle wrote:Could you clarify "doesn't like it" - what exactly happens?

When I select audacity.exe, the Open With... > Browse prompt closes and the choose program list returns to the active window, but the audacity program isn't added to the list.

Ctrl+N wrote:The problem is that by default Audacity tries to open a project file rather than an mp3 file.

And this wasn't the case on older versions? Is there a way to change it?
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Hi all, I'm using XP Home, SP3. When I had a previous Audacity setup, the right click drop-down menu of a music file (such as mp3) had Send To > Audacity and Open With... > Audacity. But now I've uninstalled the old version and have the beta up, it doesn't appear. I can try Open With... C:Program Fi...