Associating file types with different applications?

[dblank]

Can anyone explain how this is properly done? I really expected there to be an option in the gui, or at the very least something like "Open with.." in the long press context menu, but as far as I can tell there's nothing like this.

I've been trying to get .wavs to play with the sox "play" command instead of mediaplayer-ui, here's the steps I've taken so far:

removed audio/x-wav MimeType from /usr/share/applications/hildon/mp_ui.desktop

created /usr/share/applications/hildon/play.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=play
Exec=/usr/bin/play %f
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
MimeType=audio/x-wav

ran update-desktop-database

Tried launching .wav from File Manager, get error:
Unable to recognise file type of:
file.WAV
Search for an application to open it?

Then I tried making a service file, since all the other .desktop files have an X-Osso-Service line.

created /usr/share/dbus-1/services/play.service:
[D-BUS Service]
Name=play
Exec=/usr/bin/play

and added X-Osso-Service=play to play.desktop

After running /etc/init.d/af-services start, and update-desktop-database, I no longer get an error when trying to play my .wav, it simply says "play - loading" for a bit in the upper right corner, but doesn't appear to actually run the program.

Can someone please help :)

Is there an easier way to do this in OS2008 by any chance?

Thanks!

[dormant]

There are quite a few threads on this already, and there seems to be no simple answer.

I was was thinking about trying splicer (http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9024&highlight=default+application).

[pipeline]

i was just looking for a way to do this (play wav with no ui) from a script for use playing flite text-to-speech wavs. Is sox command something you built? Can you post it so i can download?

Also did you try editing the /usr/share/applications/defaults.list? Maybe adding a StartupWMClass setting to .desktop file as outlined here :
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial_bora.html (search for StartupWMClass)

Could also try the Terminal setting in desktop file.

[dblank]

i was just looking for a way to do this (play wav with no ui) from a script for use playing flite text-to-speech wavs. Is sox command something you built? Can you post it so i can download?

Also did you try editing the /usr/share/applications/defaults.list? Maybe adding a StartupWMClass setting to .desktop file as outlined here :
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial_bora.html (search for StartupWMClass)

Could also try the Terminal setting in desktop file.

I give no guarantee it'll work for you, but you can grab the version of sox I've compiled here: http://maemobox.org/dblank/sox_14.0.0-1_armel.deb

I'm gonna try to recompile it at some point with libmad, so it can play mp3s natively.

I tried default.list and messed with the Terminal setting, but haven't tried StartupWMClass, will give that a shot later.