Doing the same thing: 'This beta version of RealOne Player has expired and will now quit'. I'm unsure if it's been doing that for long as I'm trained to not click on video/audio links due to it confusing me.
So I follow the instructions and goto real.com [hmm. in IE. irritating]. In the top right of the screen is a hidden 'FREE RealOne Player', so I click there. This is typical real.com behaviour. I have to enter details, but I download a RealOnePlayerGold.sit. Sounds commercial, but I'll follow their instructions and kill my old RealPlayer software [if I can find it]. /Applications/RealOne Player Quick rm -r on the command line because I'm too lazy to use Finder. Double-click on the downloaded item to unstuff. Get a RealOne Player 'Application' icon. Clicking on that goes through config stuff, closes my IE and Safaris. Tries to make me sign in as a premium user, but I'm not. With that done, things seem to be back to normal. Except for the irritation where it downloads a .ram 0.2k file to my desktop. Hope that helps, Hen On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Marta Edie wrote: > 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 > | 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>.
