Posted by Neredbojias on 10/27/07 08:23

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:42:14
GMT Jonathan N. Little scribed:

>> The problem I had was with ie6 on a Windows machine. It was
>> exceedlingly difficult to change Quicktime from being the default for
>> certain mime types no matter what I did. Dunno about ie7, and for ff
>> and opera, I experienced no real problem. Perhaps Sherm Pendley's
>> method (re- defaulting WMP) is a quick-fix I just didn't think of,
>> but I really can't remember. In any event, Jonathan N. Little has
>> posted alterantives I wished I knew about before, and I'd recommend
>> those procedures particularly in the case of Quicktime, which I'll
>> never use again. (Quicktime/mov files are also just made for
>> embedding ads and other non- user-friendly parasites of the digital
>> persuasion.) However, keep in mind that a portion of the dilemma is
>> with ie/win, too.
>>
>
> No reason not to start now, just uninstall QT and then install QTA!
>
> I discovered both a few years back when I wanted to listen to some
> online radio and they only had an RA feed. Installed RealPlayer and
> damn it if it didn't grab all my media even after registry hacking to
> isolate its domain RAMs... I was about to throw towel and say screw
> the online radio when I discovered RealAlternative. That lead me to
> QuicktimeAlternative. I dump QT too and never looked back.
>
> As a side note. Just installed XP, I was clinging to Win2K
> forever...but when I transfered some MP3 from Win2K to XP drive all
> was fine until my Windows Media player upgraded to v11. Now some won't
> play !&^%$ DRM the help file says something about the rights are not
> transfered from v9 library to v11! Well QuicktimeAlternative &
> RealAlternative install Media Player Classic. Play all the MP3s and
> WMAs with no problems...No it doesn't have that "Oh that's pretty but
> I cannot find the bleeping controls" skin, but hey, it *plays* the
> media!

....Which, despite what Microsoft thinks, is actually the reason for the
software.

You sure they're mp3s, not wmas (-perhaps misidentified)? I didn't know
one could "drm" an mp3. Furthermore, that digital rights management crap
has made wma files, inferior anyway, the joke of the digital music age.

When I first got wmp11, I was a bit surprised. It seemed to work pretty
good (although what you say about the controls is true.) However, .aac
(and .mp4) files were coming out about then, and _they_ are the latest
word in superior digital music. Smaller size, better quality, and quite
user-friendly. Does wmp11 support them? No, of course not. Why not?
As I said before, because MS is just plain stupid. It's like Internet
Explorer, but <grin> have no fear... In 5 or 6 years when ie8 comes out,
it'll probably have most of the standards from 5 or 6 years back from
today down pat. Had I been an MS decision-maker, I'd have busted my hump
to support these new and desirable music formats, but they just go
blithely along in their retrograde world asking where you want to go
today for a good laugh or two before they dream up some new shit to
alienate the end user. You gotta love it.

I'll probably install QTA although I've avoided .mov files and don't have
any on-hand. Neither do I have any .rm or rma (et al) files but since my
box came with a registered version of RealPlayer, I think I'll leave that
alone. My main music player (and pretty much recorder now) is Winamp
which I liked enough to purchased the Pro version of. Musicmatch is/was
pretty decent, too, although now it's Abode or something.

--
Neredbojias
Just a boogar in the proboscis of life.

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