[BC] Media players (WAS:HD Radio Article)

[Steve]

Funny Willie. I was just talking to my P.D. (WorldSpace) about this very subject. He calls me with computer questions and/or problems. We got on this very subject of file associations and how Real will take over your whole rig. I HATE THAT. As you know we need that beast from time to time and the newer versions allow (how nice of Real Networks) you to select file associations. Winamp does. Nice piece of work, BTW. (I'm testing some automation software and it uses the Winamp engine and does a great job. In the newer version the author has built his own audio engine). But I digress. :) I don't know how Real Networks got the contracts they did. I don't like software that installs things you don't want and messes with the file associations. Tentacles is a good word. I laughed and for some reason 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea came to mind. <G>

Talk to you soon Captain Nemo!

Steve Newman
Steve Walker Productions
Opp, AL  36467

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  But WinAmp isn't bordering on Spyware, like REAL does in its newer versions. 
  (Unless they've changed that policy.)

  One thing I dont' like about it, is that it completely *dominates* your 
  machine... taking away *all* media file associations from *every* other application 
  you have, by default.

  My boss installed it the other day, to view some site that needed it. I had 
  to remove most of it's tentacles in order to get Cool Edit back as the default 
  WAV editor/player, and to get Windows Media Player back for the sites that use 
  it. I consider that kind of "default behavor" absolutely unacceptable. (I 
  reminded him that that is why I need to evaluate any and all software prior to 
  installation on Company PC's, and he said "You're right.")

  I left it defaulted to all of the "RM" formats, but *not* to anything else. 
  On *my* systems, I use their older "G8" version. It still plays 99.5% of what's 
  out there, without the "invasive" behavior of it's offspring. Same with my 
  old but still useful AOL V5.0

  YMMV, of course.

  Willie...

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