How to Disable AUT PLAY?

[rhaney]

When I am tagging files, how can I disable my desktop audio player from playing the actual song? It is annoying that whenever I click to edit a title, etc that my player opens up and plays the file and then it will not let me save it because the file is being used

thanks

[ohrenkino]

see e.g. this thread:

How to prevent double-click in file list

My good friend John suffers from Parkinson's disease which affects his ability to reliably click on something without frequently double-clicking when he didn't mean to do that. When selecting one or more items in a column, he frequently double-clicks by mistake, which in turn launches the player associated with the file format—in this case, JRiver Media Center and the FLAC file format we have chosen as our default, go-to format. When that happens, he cannot continue to edit the tags until he …