[AGL] RealPlayer vs Winamp

[Connie Clark]

this is really cool - I need to check into WinAmp or
RealPlayer air radio.

My office internet seems to be letting me onto radio,
but it occasionally stops due, I guess, to bandwidth
constraints (company T1 line).  At home, it could
work.

Watch out for the mean javelina - are you sure they
were not wild boars? god there are so many out there,
different varieties looking like you are facing down
wonder wart hot.

Connie

--- Gerry <mesmo at gilanet.com> wrote:


> 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.

> >

> 

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