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I am interested in having Quodlibet show up in the "Default Applications" menu in System Settings > Details, how can I do this?

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To make any music player that comes with sound indicator integration the default player in there we may from 13.04 install and run unity-tweak-tool Install unity-tweak-tool. Open the "Panel" settings and choose any of installed players:

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The example above will then make Guayadeque the default player in the sound indicator:

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Of course if we prefer not to install an additional application, or if a player such as Quod Libet does not come with full indicator sound integration we can also do this with dconf-editor (from dconf-tools Install dconf-tools in Ubuntu < 13.04):

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Quod Libet need the MPRIS plugin (quodlibet-plugins Install quodlibet-plugins) for full player control.

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  • Though I'd rather know the inner workings of the system, your post is very complete and will possibly be most helpful for anybody who reads this Q-A, thanks for your effort!
    – Severo Raz
    May 12, 2013 at 20:40
  • @WolterHellmund you already did the MIME approach nicely. I felt people who come here by Google might also want to hear about Inidicator integration.
    – Takkat
    May 12, 2013 at 20:44
  • This doesn't work for quod libet, which was the OPs original question.
    – Dave
    Sep 18, 2013 at 20:42
  • @Takkat - I tried the dconf trick just now and now Quod Libet appears in the menu...which is great. However, when I click on it, nothing happens...just doesn't run it.
    – Dave
    Sep 19, 2013 at 17:25
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    Installing and enabling the mpris plugin for Quod on 13.04 now works and has now allowed me perfect control from the sound indicator menu. Start/stop/pause -- everything Just Works.
    – Dave
    Sep 30, 2013 at 15:07
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Oh well, read about and found it: just make sure you reference quodlibet.desktop in your mimeapps.list file (local copy at ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list).

You can set it default right away just by having the following line in the mentioned file: audio/x-vorbis+ogg=quodlibet.desktop.

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