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23352 2001-11-01 19:28:00 I have just downloaded an mp3 through Morpheus and the song was duly placed
in 'my shared folder'. On opening, this mp3 has Irfanview's symbol and has
the prefix - .dat, DAT file. I can play in Winamp but can't burn it as EZCD
says its not a valid format.
How, then, do I save Morpheus mp3 downloads as .mp3, Winamp Media File. and
what's Irfanview got to do with it.
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23353 2001-11-01 19:57:00 to un-associate mp3 with Irfanview try this,Open irfanview & click 'options' then 'properties' then 'extensions' & then you can remove the tick beside mp3 & click 'OK'

hope this helps
cheers steve
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23354 2001-11-01 23:27:00 The extension on a file, physically is nothing more than a peice of text. The point in having it is it tells your system what kind of file it is. You could quite happily rename MyProgram.exe to MyProgram.dog and your computer would let you do this. However it would fail trying to run it, as your computer wouldnt know what to do with a .dog file.

It sounds like your MP3 file has just been renamed to a dat file. To fix it try this.

Make a backup of the file just in case.

In explorer go to View/Folder Options/View and uncheck Hide file extensions for known file types.

Click on the .DAT file in question and rename it from file.dat to file.mp3.

Try running it, and if all works well, then problem solved. You will just have to rename the extension of every MP3 file downloaded from Morpheus.
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