Real One Player

"Ian & Lorraine" <frito_lay_co@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Brian" <collegeking2225@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > I am running Win. XP Home. I have a Sony Walkman Mini
> > Disc MP3 player compatible with Real One Player only. My
> > music file are running in Windows Media Player. If I
> > setup Real One Player, does this become my default player
> > for all my audio. Can I still use Windows Media Player. I
> > am not familiar at all with Real 1. Do you make playlists
> > and can you listen to music in a minimized mode. One
> > other question, do you think I could just use the USB
> > port and plug in the MD player I have and go into Windows
> > Media Player and download my music that way?

>
> You know, I'm not familiar with Mini Disc MP3 players at all, but it seems
> to me that you must surely have other options aside from installing that

big

> pig, Real One Player. For one thing, your MD player plays mp3 files, not
> Real Audio files. Any music software can play mp3 files. And from

personal

> past experience, you can install RealPlayer and set it up to not be your
> default player, but it can be a challenge. Be very careful with your
> selections while installing it if you decide to use it because by its very
> nature, Real software wants to be in charge of playing everything at all
> times.
>
> Ian.
>
>

It also comes with a ton of extra baggage like ads and spyware. When you
install, make sure you uncheck all the options to send usage data, notify
you of updates etc. There are some web sites like CNN and The Weather
Channel, that require you to use Real One player to get their streaming
media. Just be careful on the install.

"Ian & Lorraine" <frito_lay_co@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<eAbuCQujDHA.2580@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>...

> "Brian" <collegeking2225@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:26a5c01c38e96$4a532f30$a601280a@phx.gbl...

> > I am running Win. XP Home. I have a Sony Walkman Mini
> > Disc MP3 player compatible with Real One Player only. My
> > music file are running in Windows Media Player. If I
> > setup Real One Player, does this become my default player
> > for all my audio. Can I still use Windows Media Player. I
> > am not familiar at all with Real 1. Do you make playlists
> > and can you listen to music in a minimized mode. One
> > other question, do you think I could just use the USB
> > port and plug in the MD player I have and go into Windows
> > Media Player and download my music that way?

>
> You know, I'm not familiar with Mini Disc MP3 players at all, but it seems
> to me that you must surely have other options aside from installing that big
> pig, Real One Player. For one thing, your MD player plays mp3 files, not
> Real Audio files. Any music software can play mp3 files. And from personal
> past experience, you can install RealPlayer and set it up to not be your
> default player, but it can be a challenge. Be very careful with your
> selections while installing it if you decide to use it because by its very
> nature, Real software wants to be in charge of playing everything at all
> times.
>
> Ian.

MD does not acutally play the MP3 format, music is converted and
stored on the disk in Sony's ATRAC3 format. As such, the only
software currently able to do this is RA1 and Sony's SonicStage and
Simple MD which are even worse than RA. Sony's scheme has you convert
all your MP3 files to its own format and then requires you to check
out/check in files to your disks. There is a maximum of 3 checkouts,
which means a song on no more than 3 disk or less if the program gets
screwed up (and it does so frequently) and songs can only be checked
back in on the machine where they were checked out. MD is an
excellent format but the software choices are horrible. There are
several work arounds for this though. Anyone interrested in MD should
visit www.minidisct.com to find any of the other suggested methods.

-Steve

I just set up my real one player on my comp. All my
files in my " my music " folder open with it now. How do
I set it back to windows media player?

>-----Original Message-----
>I just set up my real one player on my comp. All my
>files in my " my music " folder open with it now. How

do

>I set it back to windows media player?
>.
>

Open Windows Explorer, select one of the music files, right click while
depressing the shift key, select "Open With," select Windows Media Player
from the list, be sure to place a check next to always open with, click
apply and ok if the buttons become active.

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Michael Solomon MS-MVP
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I just set up my real one player on my comp. All my
> files in my " my music " folder open with it now. How do
> I set it back to windows media player?

im wondering if anyone knows of a codec i can install to play real media files through windows media player
I dont want to install the real one player as i find it too intrusive
All help appreciated.

Stuart wrote:

> im wondering if anyone knows of a codec i can install to play real
> media files through windows media player. I dont want to install the
> real one player as i find it too intrusive.
> All help appreciated.

Windows Media Player won't play Real Media files. RealOne Player WILL play
Windows Media Files, however, with the Microsoft codecs installed.

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so you think there is no way of just downloading the real player codec without the rest of the program?