How to set default program to open file types

What I am wanting to do is be able to open music saved in Apple Lossless format in other than iTunes, say in maybe Quicktime. I have most of my music in this format and want to keep them that way so when I want to add an album to iTunes it's already in lossless format. But as it is now with iTunes as the default, anytime I even play one song it is imported into iTunes and I have to go back and delete it.
I am sure there is a way to make the default program for .m4a files not iTunes?

If you are just previewing music files you can also click on the song and hit your SpaceBar on the keyboard to listen to the song.

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Control-click a pdf file and choose "Get Info". In the Info window choose which application to open the file with and then click on the "change all" button. Voila!
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How to set default programs???

How to set default programs?
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Select a .doc and go File -> Get Info
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Plsss help me: how to set default values in html:file and html:radio

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To set default value to text box i use the following code. It works well.
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[SOLVED] Unable to set default application to open files

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Whenever I try to set a default application for a file type (an avi for example) by right-clicking the file in Nautilus and choosing Open with Other Application, I can select the application (in this case VLC), check the Remember this Application checkbox and click Open, I always get the below message:
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I'm thinking this is simply a misconfigured path statement (forgive the Windows terminology) but I'm not sure where to start looking. Any help would be most appreciated.
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Thanks for the reply ngoonee!
The situation has already changed a bit. Still being in Windows mode, I decided to try a reboot. After rebooting I no longer get the error I was before (I wonder if it had something to do with logging in initially as root then su'ing to my user account) but the association with vlc just isn't sticking.
I noticed though that now when I right-click on a video file I get the option to "Open with Movie Player" as well as "Open with VLC media player" (which does do what it's supposed to), which wasn't there before. For grins I went and set the preferred multimedia app to VLC through System > Preferences > Preferred Applications, but that didn't help.
Is there a place these preferences are stored that I might take a peek at?
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Please Help! How do i make MS OFFICE the default programs for opening files

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