Associating Notation Composer with .MID, .KAR, and .NOT Files

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You can set up Windows to always use Composer to open a MIDI (.mid) or Karaoke (.kar) file when you open it from Windows Explorer, or download it using Internet Explorertm or another browser.

When you first installed Composer, you were asked whether you wanted to "associate" Composer with .mid and .kar files. Associate is the term that Windows uses to say that a specified program is used to open files with a certain file name extension, such as .mid or .kar. If you did not request Composer to be associated with .mid and .kar files when you ran the Composer setup program, you can easily instruct it to be associated, as described below. On the other hand, if you did request Composer to be associated with .mid and .kar files, but change your mind, you can remove the association.

prcarrow To associate Composer with MIDI (.mid) and Karaoke (.kar) files:

1.Choose the Associate Composer with .MID Files command in the Setup menu. Composer will display the following dialog box:

          AssociateDlg

 

Note: On Windows Vista and Windows 7, the above dialog box is replaced with a different set of instructions.

2.Add a check mark next to each of the two options and click the OK button.

prcarrow To remove the association of Composer with MIDI (.mid) and Karaoke (.kar) files:

1.Follow the same procedure as above, but remove the check mark(s).
2.After you remove the association of Composer with .mid or .kar files, the next time you open one of these files, Windows might ask you to choose which new program to associate with the .mid or .kar file extension. You should follow Windows instructions for establishing the new file association.

       

Some versions of Windows do not automatically ask you to choose the new program to associate with the file types but, instead, just tell you that no program is currently associated with the .mid or .kar file extension. In this case, follow the next procedure below.

prcarrow To manually associate another program with MIDI (.mid) and Karaoke (.kar) files:
 

Note: On Windows Vista and Windows 7, choose the Associate Composer With .MID Files command in the Setup menu, and follow the instructions there,

The instructions below use MIDI files as the example, but they apply equally to Karaoke files.

1.Right-click the Windows Start button at the lower left corner of the screen.
2.Choose Explore from the Start menu.
3.In the Tools menu of the newly opened Explore (or Start Menu) window, choose the Folder Options command.
4.In the Folder Options window, click the File Types tab.
5.In the File Types window pane, scroll down in the list of Registered File Types until you find the extension MID. Or, if you do not find the MID extension, click the New button, and add an entry for the MID file extension.
6.Once you select the MID file extension, click the Add or Change button for Opens With. Windows will display an Open With dialog with a list of all of the programs registered on your system.
7.In the Open With dialog, choose the program you wish to newly associate with the MID file extension.

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