This was annoying to me too but it is pretty easy to fix. Just right click on the .mp3 or whatever file, Get Info and change the default application to your preferred app and then click on "Change all..."

You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done.

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hmokiguess 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah opt-out is so annoying though, I prefer opt-in, let me pick the first time I try or use a sane default like Quicktime instead

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xoa 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes, at least in theory changing this is straight forward. Though:

>You have to do it once per file type but it's once and done.

I will note I have one Mac with one old user account where it will not remember this anymore across reboots (across macOS 15, plan to skip 26 and hope 27 is acceptable). I haven't had time to try to get into why, but it's occasionally irritating.

	▲	isametry 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I wonder if SwiftDefaultApps might yield different results compared to the Cmd+I menu? It's a crude-yet-still-working preference pane for setting default apps in System Settings, rather than using example files: https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps