Making XMMS your default playlist player in Firefox/Ubuntu

I have just installed Ampache as my remote music playing interface. it was working great for playing m3u playlist streams on all the windows machines in the house. However, when I tried to use Firefox on Ubuntu to play something nothing would happen.

I did a lot of google searches but almost everything was wrong or had no answer. I find one reference to changing the default appliction within Ubuntu. I then found on my own where to make the changes in Firefox Below is what I did to make this work.

First start by setting xmms as your default within Ubuntu.

1. Click on System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications.
2. Click on Multimedia.
3. Click the drop down and select XMMS from the menu. If it is not in the menu click on Custom and enter XMMS.
4. Click close.

Now from within Firefox.

1. Click Edit -> Preferences
2. Click the content button.
3. Click Manage under File Types section.
4. This will give you a list of files types. In the search field enter m3u.
5. Click the Change Action button.
6. Click the radio button for “Open with this application”
7. It will open a file manager window. XMMS should be located in /usr/bin/.

This should make XMMS your default m3u play list player.