[AGL] RealPlayer vs Winamp

[Michael Eisenstadt]

> 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.


The car is still the Toyota Cressida, right? I was wondering
if you keep a junker to run parts with just in case.


> 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?


Yup, computers. Do you have broadband? Satellite broadband?


> 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.


The others ran out the way they came in and then you went and fixed the
fence?


> 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.


Different strokes for different folks! I would probably kill myself before
the year of listening to Villa-Lobos was out. As Oscar Wilde said
on his deathbed in a Paris hotel, "Either I or the wall paper must go."

We plan to take my aged mother-in-law to a Monteverdi concert at
the First English Lutheran church on 30th and Whitis. Voice and
ancient instruments. This Saturday at 8pm.