Lately I've gotten into creating music and use tools like Logic to generate .wav files.<p>Every time I open a new .wav file it defaults to Apple Music.<p>If I go to a given file and right click and select "open with application" I'm able to choose VLC. Great right?<p>Except, that ONLY applies to that specific file. The prompt at the top of the Finder says "Choose an application to open the document “my_wav_file.wav”."<p>Shouldn't I be able to EASILY set VLC as my default for every .wav file that I open?<p>This feels like a dark pattern. Apple is making it counterintuitive for me to set a default application that is not Apple's and I'm guessing that files I upload to Apple Music somehow end up on their servers and are processed by them(maybe that's a bit of a tin-foil stretch, but you get my point).
Option-Right click on a file in Finder and choose "Always open with".
To discover options like this, in any menu hold down the option key to see menu items change.