Thanks, Bryan, but that is not actually what I am looking for. I use iTunes all the time and have downloaded a lot of songs - all in the classical field, though. What I am looking for is this : I get my morning e-mail from BBC, from CNN and The New York Times. They often have talks, audio news within the e-mail proper, just a click away or also on their web pages. I could always get them without trouble, just by clicking, then real player icon would come up and it would simply give me the oral version of the particular topic. Now all I get is the real player which wants me to commit that I subscribe to it after a period of 30 days. Until recently I got the free version when I clicked on the particular button. I don't know whether there is any other way to listen to the day's news . See, then I can go about my business and am not attached to the computer to have to read the stuff. BBC was so good at that. I used to receive the important news as if I were listening to the radio. And that option is gone, unless I take it for 30 days and then quit or pay.- The streaming stuff in the iTunes I get all the time, they have these German oldies from the 50th, 60ths etc , music from blind people, rock, jass, blues , etc. I also have a whole iTunes library which I up/downloaded either from my CDs or from the music store where I buy songs and albums I like. I know i always seem to have eclectic wishes that don't fit what the well meaning people at the other end have prepared for me in package deals. At least iTunes allows you to buy a song, if you don't care for the whole album. What interests me here is also this: have all these companies a deal with REAL PLAYER? Why couldn't I click and get a different player?" It always requires that you have REAL Player and nothing else.That is frustrating when you want to listen to a particular news item. On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 21:24 America/New_York, Bryan Forrest wrote:
> Hi Marta, > > iTunes 4 has an option to listen to streaming audio broadcasts with > all sorts of options. Rock, jazz, country, talk, and more are > available directly from the application. > > If those options are not suffiicent for you, you can still download > streams from sites like shoutcast.com and live365.com. > > Hope this helps! > > Bryan C. Forrest > Macintosh Specialist > LifeNet > http://www.lifenet.org > > On Oct 20, 2003, at 8:28 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > >> I used to be able to listen to news (BBC for example) and other audio >> stuff, but now everytime I want to use real player, they want to give >> me a free trial and then I am supposed to pay. Is that the newest >> thing? how can I get around this? Couldn't I use Quicktime or even >> iTunes to get some audio or video of my choice, not the stuff that >> they precooked for me? >> Marta >> Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin a.D. >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be October 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >> >> Marta -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3093 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031020/bd8cfd00/attachment.bin
