NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio

taped2thedesk writes "Today, NPR's Car Talk, a 'call in talk [radio] show about car mechanics', announced they were switching back to RealAudio, after dumping it for Windows Media a few months ago. When the show switched to Windows Media, Real took notice and convinced the show to switch back, by addressing various listener complaints about their player (many of which were fixed in RealPlayer 10). The hosts say: 'We believe [Real have] made a serious and successful attempt to address those things that our listeners complained about most... They even offered to serve the audio for free online, which defrays an expense we'd otherwise have to cover.'"

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Re:Don't Cross The Streams

[t0ny2]

Someone mentioned Real Alternative a few weeks ago. It was a godsend, because I now refuse to install realplayer.

Another interesting tidbit I came across was that they also have an alternative for the number one buggy movie player, Quicktime (which I likewise refuse to install). Now I can view both formats with none of the buggyness, and also have only one media player to worry about. Less is more.

car talk shows online

[bstil]

The current week's show is available here.

I know the site used to have archived "favorites" of many, many shows when it was hosted by cars.com. However, I don't see the favorite clips listed anymore...

Re:*nix support at Real

[rgammon_real]

Check out the Helix Player, an open source Gtk-based player based on the same client core technology as RealPlayer 10
https://player.helixcommunity.org/

Downloads are available here:

MS2.1 had problems playing back non-realaudio/realvideo datatypes -- if you need these, M2 is a better bet.

Nightly builds are also available -- see the player webpage for details.

Re:Don't Cross The Streams

[Filmwatcher888]

For Media Player's replacement, use Media Player Classic.

Re:realplayer 8

[BigDumbAnimal]

This is an excellent site for problems like realplayer