Opening the external disk with EaysyTAG

[Balder]

I have the Removable Drive Menu extension running on GNOME. When I plug in an external drive (usually a USB stick or backup HDDs) and click on the drive name in the extension menu to mount and open it, EasyTAG (necessarily installed) opens instead of the file manager. I also had this phenomenon earlier with KDE and Dolphin and its USB-icon in the bottom right of the tray. Why does EasyTAG push itself in front and how can I prevent this?

[joekamprad]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_MIME_Applications

looks like related to this… isee these issue popping up with some apps from time to time…

check ~/.config/mimeapps.list and search for EasyTAG in there exange it with nautilus ?

[Balder]

Thanks @joekamprad for the link. But I could not find anything like that in the mimeapps.list. Also in the files that were described in the Arch-wiki, there is no reference to EasyTAG.

[joekamprad]

Gnome opens easytag instead of nautilus, Failed to delete using Trash

I have done it now, but that hasnt solve it. [mak@mak-pc ~]$ groups sys log network floppy scanner power rfkill users video storage optical lp audio wheel adm autologin mak

Removable devices

Hello, when I plugin a removabe device (USB drive, USB stick, Mobile) a dialog pops up and asking, what to do. In this dialog, I’m asked to open the device with EasyTAG. [grafik] EasyTAG was the last application I’ve installed manually. Can I change this to Files somewhere? EasyTAG is not the best application for this operation. When I use the Removable Drive Menu Extension ist the behaviour the same, but I can use the exetensions top menu: [DriveMenu] Kind regards, Marvin

[Balder]

Opening via the Open with (Files) dialog is the correct way, but it cannot be saved.

EasyTAG remains as the standard application.

[joekamprad]

Removable devices

When you connect your drive, ignore the Notification Center and and that wants to open the Tag Editor. Instead, once plugged in, open Nautilus, select your drive, and inside your drive right click on the main folder (in my case I right click on ‘Phone’), and select “Open With Other Application” [Screenshot from 2022-08-16 12-08-43] Select Nautilus from the list and click “Select” and from now on when you insert that drive, it should now default to the Notification Center asking you if you want…

do exactly this

[Balder]

Yes, I did exactly THAT (see screenshot), only it can’t be saved or otherwise set. It is only a one-time thing.
I need to somehow make EasyTAG no longer the default application.

[lorebett]

I think in the mimeapps file you have to specify the fully qualified name, not just nautilus… something starting with org.gnome etc

[joekamprad]

in the end this is an issue with how the application itself is packaged or even defaults to this…
I see the same with some other apps…

[Balder]

This seems to be a general problem with EasyTag, I used to have problems with it on other systems as well. Just did not necessarily want to take something with qt for the GNOME. But have now ET uninstalled again. My music is also largely ready, much is not added there and I can do with Rhythmbox.

The thread can be closed

[Balder]

The solution is: Uninstall EasyTAG

[joekamprad]

inode/directory

is set in its desktop file…
so a workaround could be to copy the dsktop file into users desktop dir:

cp /usr/share/applications/easytag.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

and edit this one in the line:

MimeType=inode/directory;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;application/ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-flac;audio/x-musepack;audio/x-ape;audio/x-speex+ogg;audio/x-opus+ogg;
removing that:

MimeType=audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;application/ogg;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-flac;audio/x-musepack;audio/x-ape;audio/x-speex+ogg;audio/x-opus+ogg;

thats upstream:

data/org.gnome.EasyTAG.desktop.in · master · GNOME / easytag · GitLab

Issue created
4 years ago:

inode/directory MimeType (#16) · Issues · GNOME / easytag · GitLab

[Balder]

Thanks Joe, I will give that a try. Btw, an error that was already reported 4! years ago …

[joekamprad]

@Balder

an error that was already reported 4! years ago …

undeed…