[AGL] RealPlayer vs Winamp

[Gerry]

Mike,
I use Rhapsody for music. It is a service connected with Real, uses Real
Player stream for outlet, etc. Mostly use WinPlayer for copying CD's and
some radio. Also have XM radio in the car for those 70 mile, twice weekly
round trips to the grocery store. Quicktime is used by some radio stations
(Apple's rival to Win and Real). For my ears the sound of all is acceptable.
I don't know the details of the technology but they seem to be the same
service dressed up in different clothes.

Not many years ago I lived in the wilderness in a camper with tent, no
electricity, no radio, river nearby for bathing and washing dishes. Comfort
was not included in the virtues of this life which I embraced for a few
years. But alas, age has relegated me to the couch much more often than ever
before. In this time I am better entertained than ever before, all kinds of
options, a veritable wonderland. And this is all in a setting that is
literally in the wild floodplain of a wild river (currently threatening to
flood) in the far outback of Southwestern NM where human beings are rare.
Who'd a thunk it?

When the javelina herd showed up at my doorstep on Saturday, it was a shock
of immediate reality that I had a slight delay in coming to grips
with...wanted to reach for a remote control and click them away. How times
change. But I woke up and reacted typically. Managed to bag the leader of
the herd (about 20 of them, large-medium-small). Hate to kill them anymore
but I do consider them to be threatening and would just as soon they stayed
outside my fenceline.

Back to the music. This year I am on a Villa-Lobos trip, plan to make him my
main attraction all year. He was so prodigious I may need a year to get
through his works. Quite a guy, Heitor.
G



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:58 AM
Subject: [AGL] RealPlayer vs Winamp



> Both free. Winamp is harder to change stations with.

> Winamp can change stereo balance and boost or

> attenuate different parts of the audio spectrum.

>

> RealPlayer is easier to change stations but cant

> do those other things.

>

> Usually it doesnt matter except for music.

> The Otto Baroque Musique stream but

> with HORRIBLE ads often plays pieces

> featuring baroque trumpet. Boosting the

> treble and balancing the stereo speakers,

> old but good JBS speakers, while the

> trumpets blare is ear candy.

>

> Gerry, Fontaine and others are doing the

> same with air radio, through satelite reception

> which is a pre-Internet protocol. I found

> a better barber shop on South

> Congress and they had a country music

> stream with air radio: just the music,

> a well chosen playlist. Have a haircut

> and try to nail who's singing. Hank

> Snow is easy, Charlie Pride a little

> harder to identify.

>