Friday, June 17, 2005
I hate it when...
I install a media program of some sort and the installation assumes I want that program to play ALL of my media files.
I installed realplayer or whatever it's called nowadays so I could listen to Lionel, my favorite radio talk show personality at the moment. Out here, he's on WOR where his show is on from 11pm to 1am (that's eastern standard time, muthafukka's). I listen to the show from WOR's website and for some reason they insist on Realplayer. I should look around and find out if his show is being streamed from anywhere else. Hopefully a site where I can listen with WinAmp.
Anyway I installed Realplayer (or is it RealOne?) last night. I've had the program several times before and always end up deleting it, though I remember it being useful some years ago, before I knew about mp3's and how to make my own VCDs and whatnot.
So today I find that my wav and mpeg (and other) files have Realplayer icons attached to them. I change that of course. When I have the time, I'll hunt down any other hijacked file assignments.
I understand that there are programs that are like Tivo for streaming radio. If I can find one that'll allow me to listen to streaming programs without having to rely on RealOne and Windows Media Player (I don't really like that one either), that would be awsome.
I installed realplayer or whatever it's called nowadays so I could listen to Lionel, my favorite radio talk show personality at the moment. Out here, he's on WOR where his show is on from 11pm to 1am (that's eastern standard time, muthafukka's). I listen to the show from WOR's website and for some reason they insist on Realplayer. I should look around and find out if his show is being streamed from anywhere else. Hopefully a site where I can listen with WinAmp.
Anyway I installed Realplayer (or is it RealOne?) last night. I've had the program several times before and always end up deleting it, though I remember it being useful some years ago, before I knew about mp3's and how to make my own VCDs and whatnot.
So today I find that my wav and mpeg (and other) files have Realplayer icons attached to them. I change that of course. When I have the time, I'll hunt down any other hijacked file assignments.
I understand that there are programs that are like Tivo for streaming radio. If I can find one that'll allow me to listen to streaming programs without having to rely on RealOne and Windows Media Player (I don't really like that one either), that would be awsome.
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