Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-09-09 Thread Colin r . Howard
Greetings, I have come to this thread which started in May 2010 and note people have not included a couple of obvious facts. I've had the problem of a media stream continuing, after I've closed the player, so nowadays, when I wish to stop a stream, I do ctrl-s then close the player - works

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-09-09 Thread Tom Kaufman
: Strange Windows Media Thing Greetings, I have come to this thread which started in May 2010 and note people have not included a couple of obvious facts. I've had the problem of a media stream continuing, after I've closed the player, so nowadays, when I wish to stop a stream, I do ctrl-s

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-17 Thread Robert Logue
? Bob - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:31 PM Subject: Strange Windows Media Thing Hello List: Have had something strange happen recently..and it's happened twice

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-17 Thread Robert Logue
Ok Tom. I don't have 11. I prefer 10. Still would like to try the page that caused the problem. Bob - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 9:34 PM Subject: Re: Strange Windows Media

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Kaufman
Hello Robert and list: For anyone who wants to check this out, here is one of the pages that had a link to a stream that..upon closing it out, did not stop playing! Of course..I just tried it again and..of course..it did what it was supposed to do when I closed it out, so go figure! The link

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-17 Thread Robert Logue
...@comcast.net To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 3:45 PM Subject: Re: Strange Windows Media Thing Hello Robert and list: For anyone who wants to check this out, here is one of the pages that had a link to a stream that..upon closing it out, did not stop

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-17 Thread Tom Kaufman
Hello Robert and list: Yes..someone else on here recommended that I try that..and this is what I plan on doing if I run into this again! It was just so goofy; I knew I had closed WMP..but the stream just kept on going...and I'm like how do I stop this thing? Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe

Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-16 Thread Tom Kaufman
Hello List: Have had something strange happen recently..and it's happened twice: there was a station I wanted to hear that uses Windows Media to stream their audio. When I decided I had listened as long as I wanted, I hit my alt-F4 to stop the stream and close out Windows Media. Well

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-16 Thread Tom Kaufman
One more thing that might help: am running Windows Media 11..forgot to say that in my previous message! Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-16 Thread brandon armstrong
heres a thing for blindies to do. why none do this i'll never figure out. Go in to the windows task manager find windows player, and hit alt e to end it and say yes. heres some friendly advice. next time, switch to winamp. unlike media it stops every time you close it. On May 16, 2010, at 10:34

RE: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-16 Thread André van Deventer
:34 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Strange Windows Media Thing One more thing that might help: am running Windows Media 11..forgot to say that in my previous message! Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe

Re: Strange Windows Media Thing

2010-05-16 Thread Tom Kaufman
Hello André and list: Yeah..that sounds like a plan! As far as using something other than Windows Media is concerned..sometimes you really don't have a choice..especially if you're looking to hear a station and you have no way of knowing what stream they use! But I'll try restarting Windows