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I don't know if this is a bug, but I cannot change the default music player in 16.04 LTS.

In System Settings / Details / Preferred Applications, Rhythmbox is set as default, but when I double click the mp3 it opens VLC.

If I wish to change the default application, it doesn't change the VLC to Rhythmbox.

Is there a way I could do this through the terminal?

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Anwar
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Mookey
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You can manage file type in Ubuntu-Tweak

1). Install Ubuntu-Tweak for Ubuntu 16.04 (More info about GetDeb Apps) 

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

2). Open Ubuntu-Tweak and go to Admins > File Type Manager:

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In the categories press Audio and select which File Type will be open with Rhythmbox

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Benny
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grep Totem cat /usr/share/applications/defaults.list >> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Replace org.gnome.Totem.desktop with mpv.desktop

http://libre-software.net/change-the-default-application-linux-mint-ubuntu/

rofrol
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