Hurrah, Hen, I got it. Did what you said, have now BBC news on. I have had those crazy .ram icons all over my desktop during the last week when I was trying to get this thing to work. Now I am not sure whether this real one player will disappear when I close up tonight. Will see. And hopefully they won't want to charge me next month. Thanks again, Marta On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 22:55 America/New_York, Henri Yandell wrote:
> > 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>. > > 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>.
