What is the easiest way to remove an app (fooyin in this case) from the association of ALL applications?

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What is the easiest way to remove an app (fooyin in this case) from the association of ALL applications?

fooyin (flatpak, but also repo.source) is set as an association for pretty much all file types. What is the easiest way to disable this? To test this, I have set this entry under [Removed Associations] in the mimeapps.list:

application/x-bittorrent=org.fooyin.fooyin.desktop;

It works, but I would have to do this for all applications on the system. How can I simplify this?``

PS.: By default, the sound files are opened with mpv, which is completely fine from the file manager.

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It looks like this was a mistake. Here is a related issue on GitHub:

Try editing fooyin’s desktop file to remove the octet-stream file association (it might already be gone if your desktop file was updated after this commit), then update the mime database.

sudo update-desktop-database
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I know this posting. However, it is already over 2 months old. Back then I installed fooyin for the first time and now, 2 months later, I was hoping that the developer had finally fixed this error. Apparently it was nothing… When I opened org.fooyin.fooyin.desktop, I didn’t notice anything either:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=fooyin
Type=Application
GenericName=fooyin Music Player
Comment=Manages and plays your local music collection
Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=fooyin --file-forwarding org.fooyin.fooyin @@ %F @@
Icon=org.fooyin.fooyin
Terminal=false
Categories=AudioVideo;Player;Qt;Audio;
MimeType=x-content/audio-player;application/x-cue;audio/x-mpegurl;application/vnd.apple.mpegurl;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;application/x-ogm-audio;audio/flac;audio/ogg;audio/vorbis;audio/aac;audio/mp4;audio/mpeg;audio/mpegurl;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-flac;audio/x-oggflac;audio/x-vorbis;audio/x-vorbis+ogg;audio/x-speex;audio/x-wav;audio/x-wavpack;audio/x-ape;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-ms-wma;audio/x-musepack;video/x-ms-asf;application/vnd.ms-asf;audio/x-ay;audio/x-gbs;audio/x-hes;audio/x-kss;audio/x-nsf;audio/x-nsfe;audio/x-sap;audio/x-spc;application/octet-stream;audio/aiff;audio/basic;audio/x-sph;audio/x-voc;audio/wav;audio/x-wavex;audio/x-w64;audio/x-wve;audio/x-dro;audio/x-gym;audio/x-s98;audio/x-vgm;audio/x-vgz
StartupNotify=false
StartupWMClass=fooyin
X-Flatpak=org.fooyin.fooyin

I don’t know where to copy this entry.:

So I update the mime database.

Since I didn’t find anything in the desktop file, I updated the mime database anyway, but that was pointless because the Flatpak version is already the most recent version and the system is only a few days old. So where does the problem come from?

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I have now created a CMakeLists.txt with the following content:

create_fooyin_plugin_internal(
    rawaudio
    DEPENDS Fooyin::Core
    SOURCES rawaudioinput.cpp
            rawaudioinput.h
            rawaudioplugin.cpp
            rawaudioplugin.h
)

But what do I do with it now?

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You still have the mimetype association which causes the issue in your desktop file. Delete “application/octet-stream;” out of that line, then try updating the mime database again and see if it makes any difference.

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That worked, thanks for your help!
I will now note down this solution for a later case.
Happy New Year!

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