It could arise when you update from legacy Audacity 1.3.x (which had its own installation folder) to current Audacity. On Windows, the Audacity executable cannot be added to Explorer's 'Open with' menu if there is already a Registry entry pointing to another 'audacity.exe'. If a track is already open in Audacity when you execute 'Open with', your file will be opened in a new project window. If you add Audacity to 'Open with', this provides a way to open files with Audacity when it isn't already running, but retain the default double-click action to play the file with Windows Media Player. Once a application has been added to the 'Open with' menu, it will be listed when you hover over 'Open with'. You can add an application to the 'Open with' menu and choose if that application will now be the default application to open that file type when you double-click it. This context menu item allows you to open the file with applications other than the default application associated with that file type. The following information applies to Windows, but similar principles apply to other operating systems. 1.3 Opening multiple files from the context menuĪ context menu is the menu of options accessible when you right-click over a file in the operating system's file manager (for example, Explorer in Windows).

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