# Play option
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 11, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915 "2009-02-11T20:47:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Morag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Chris_Morag)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915/1 "2009-02-11T20:47:10Z")
Can anyone advise me how to change the player used to play back tracks?
I am currently unable to use Mediaplayer which it defaults to.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915/2 "2009-02-11T21:13:42Z")
You can change it at Options \> Tools \> Default action by selecting a previously added user-defined tool.
Another option is to re-associate the player with the file type, since Mp3tag tries to read that information from Windows.
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Morag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Chris_Morag)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915/3 "2009-02-11T21:45:01Z")
Worked a treat - many thanks.
eg.
General-Tag Panel-Tools-
Name=Player
Path=E:\Program Files\realplay.exe as typed in or use browse option for location of program .exe
Parameter=left blank
ticked/selected - for all selected files
OK
now able to to play back each track using Realplayer when PLAY option selected from right mouse click
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Morag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Chris_Morag)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915/4 "2009-02-11T22:32:46Z")
> [@Chris Morag](#):
>
> Worked a treat - many thanks.
> eg.
> General-Tag Panel-Tools-
> Name=Player
> Path=E:\Program Files\realplay.exe as typed in or use browse option for location of program .exe
> Parameter=left blank
> ticked/selected - for all selected files
> OK
>
> now able to to play back each track using Realplayer when PLAY option selected from right mouse click
Attempted to set up option as doubleclick with:
" "path" plus [CTRL-P]"
but without success where the program opens OK but does not automatically select/play the track.
Can you help with the syntax for this one? Regards, Chris
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915/5 "2009-02-12T07:00:32Z")
I don't use RealPlayer (and don't intent to install it) but I'd try to use
/play "%\_path%"
as parameter.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/play-option/7915/6 "2026-02-09T12:21:23Z")