Add Enqueue and Play in Foobar options in mp3 right click context menu

Jun 05 2010 June 5, 2010 June 5, 2010 22 Comments by christian

Add Enqueue and Play in Foobar options in mp3 right click context menu

I switched to Foobar recently. It is an awesome media player, but I noticed that for some files (like mp3s) the Enqueue in Foobar option was not present in the right-click context menu. If Foobar was set as the default program, Play in foobar showed up, but the enqueue option still remained missing.

On further investigation I realised that only the files supported by Windows Media Player did not show the Enqueue in Foobar option.

Though the usual solutions to the problem involve registry modifications, I found a very simple solution to it.

First make sure the Folder Context Menus option is checked in the Library>Configure>Shell Integration in Foobar.

1. Go to Control Panel > Default Programs > Set program access and computer defaults

2. Choose the Custom configuration.

3. In the section Choose a default media player uncheck Enable access to this program for Windows Media Center and Windows Media Player.

4. you’re done!

The “Enqueue in Foobar” option will be present in the right-click context menu of all audio files now. 🙂

Thanks to http://www.uberullu.com for the tip.

Tags:foobar

Lello says:

June 19, 2010 at 13:23

Thanks
sha says:

May 12, 2011 at 10:07

Great! It works! Thnx a lot man
walter says:

February 16, 2013 at 20:30

awesome!
u helped me..
KILLA-CONNI says:

April 17, 2013 at 22:49

Thanks, dude!
huckafooter says:

April 25, 2013 at 17:08

VERY good tip. Well done, and thanks!!!
WindSurfer says:

August 10, 2013 at 20:44

Thank you very much, works fine with Windows 8 🙂
Dan says:

September 8, 2013 at 06:33

Thanks! Really simple and easy. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with new terms and go to a long list of wikis to get what they mean.
De says:

November 27, 2013 at 17:51

THANKS!!!
Mark says:

November 30, 2013 at 12:18

Nice – That’s been bugging me for years! I always wondered why sometimes the enqueue option was missing. I’d never noticed it was for particular file types, I thought it was some sort of intermittent problem.

Thanks
Simon says:

December 13, 2013 at 22:26

NICE THX from Germany for the solution ive been searching so long!
Darth says:

December 21, 2013 at 14:29

Thanks! Simple and straightforward, solved my problem!
Lecapas says:

February 7, 2014 at 17:55

Very good. Thanks!
Hong says:

April 17, 2014 at 17:16

Thanks! Useful tip!!!
Koji says:

May 10, 2014 at 11:55

Thank you very much!
Mark says:

May 16, 2014 at 14:28

Awesome. Thanks a lot!!!
Eric says:

June 2, 2014 at 19:43

I know this post is really old but his still works! I haven’t had the enqueue option in years and years but finally remembered it thanks to an old screenshot and I was like I WANT THAT BACK. So this worked, thanks.
MillS says:

June 27, 2014 at 14:47

Fantastic ! This will forever be in my bookmarks, just in case ! Thank you so much dude 🙂
Kenny Tusing says:

August 8, 2014 at 19:15

Thanks man…..real nice tip
beck says:

September 19, 2014 at 03:23

thanks!
this guide was very helpful ^^
CR33P says:

November 6, 2014 at 22:15

Thanks man, this was driving me f*cking nuts!
Nina says:

November 7, 2014 at 20:28

thank you very much!
.:mono:. says:

December 4, 2014 at 05:06

this has been driving me literally nuts, thanks for the answer!