Re: 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 then close the player - works **every** time with WMP11. The other factor is, when over the listen link, whatever format it is, why not go into your applications menu to save target as and look to see the format in which the target is saved. If the extension is .ram, you know it's real player, if .asx media, .m3u .pls WinAmp. If it is an .htm extension, it is likely to be a proprietory player used by the station. Just a few thoughts. Colin Howard has sent you this from a small place about 8 miles east of Southampton in Southern England. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Strange Windows Media Thing
Colin and list: Thank you for this bit of info; will keep this in mind as it may be of help in the future! Tom Kaufman - Original Message - From: Colin r. Howard co...@pobox.com To: PC Audio Discussion List pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:38 PM Subject: Re: 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 then close the player - works **every** time with WMP11. The other factor is, when over the listen link, whatever format it is, why not go into your applications menu to save target as and look to see the format in which the target is saved. If the extension is .ram, you know it's real player, if .asx media, .m3u .pls WinAmp. If it is an .htm extension, it is likely to be a proprietory player used by the station. Just a few thoughts. Colin Howard has sent you this from a small place about 8 miles east of Southampton in Southern England. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Strange Windows Media Thing
Please send a link to the media files that do this so we can test them. You can press the stop button in WMP control+s before closing the application. Is the web page still open? Does the music stopif you close the web page first? Is it Windows Media Player? Which version of Windows Media? 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: 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 now..while Windows Media seemed to go away, the stream did not! I was back on my desk top..and found myself looking around to find how to get to the stream to stop it..but could not! This happened again with a different station that also uses Windows Media to stream their audio; same experience: when I went to close it out, the stream kept on going..although Windows Media was gone! The only way to stop it (as far as I could tell)..is to restart the computer! Can somebody please tell me what is happening here? I'm using Jaws 11, running Windows XP Home with Service pack 3; the sound card is an Audigy 2 (think I'm right on this)..hopefully I have provided enough information to you so you can figure out what is going on here! It's very strange when you know (or at least you _think_ you know that you have closed out the player..but the stream plays on..with no way to stop it! Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2878 - Release Date: 05/16/10 12:26:00 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Strange Windows Media Thing
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 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2878 - Release Date: 05/16/10 12:26:00 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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 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 is: http://www.dicksaylor.com/ Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Strange Windows Media Thing
Thanks Tom. Guess its just one of those goofy computer things. Both sites playd nice for me with WMP10. If it ever happens again, we might try reopening WMP and pressing stop Do you happen to have a stop button on your keyboard? Bob - Original Message - From: Tom Kaufman tomca...@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 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 is: http://www.dicksaylor.com/ Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2879 - Release Date: 05/17/10 00:26:00 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Strange Windows Media Thing
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 from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
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
Re: Strange Windows Media Thing
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 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote: 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 from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
RE: Strange Windows Media Thing
Also had this problem sometimes. What I usually do is to restart windows media player and shut it down again. That usually closes it properly. -Original Message- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom Kaufman Sent: 17 May 2010 05:34 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 from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
Re: Strange Windows Media Thing
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 Media; then closing it out..and will see what happens! Thanks for the suggestion! Tom Kaufman To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
