Test lauch

Test this, just click and see what happens.

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The show is supposed to start while launching RealPlayer, when it's on your computer of course and just perhaps the Pennyblack Music homepage shows in that very same internet media browser. Probably not though.

On the top bar of RealPlayer, you may see the tab of WEB light up, click that. In my case, that brought on the Pennyblack Music page the way I intended.

Use Real Player as the browser for Pennyblack Music?

Thanks John!

I noticed the direct link to the magazine website is missing, here it goes:

http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk

I have been testing the good'ole webbrowser that is used by Real Player and whoopie, when you play a radio show in Real Player, in stand-alone mode, not embedded, the shows continue as they should whilst you can browse the website.

Try it. Here's the URL of a radio show, copy the link, open Real Player and open the file. Copy/past - Ctrl + O/Ctrl + V in Windowspeak. I don't speak Apple, you do, so please edit this.

http://www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk/Radio/live2012.ram

Perhaps you only need to click the link above to start Real Player. It depends on personal settings on computers whether it would or would not work immediately.

If so, I would recommend to set the home page in the browser with Real Player to our website and Bob's your uncle. Then in future we will simply post here the link to any new show.

Once the radio show plays, you can again open (Ctrl + O) any webpage.

So, rather than embed the audio in a webpage, the webpage comes embedded while the radio plays as it were.

See for yourselves, whether you prefer this approach. I would not recommend Real Player as a web browser. Yet for the purpose of listening to our radio and going through our webpages at the same time without interrupting the radio, this is a very handy solution I feel.

Pennyblackmusic May Edition On-Line

We have recently put on-line the May edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. Our lead interview this month is with Sylvian Sylvian, the guitarist and one of the two surviving members of seminal punk-precursors the New York Dolls, who speaks about his reformed group’s new album, ‘Cause I Sez So’, and its capacity for tragedy, but also survival against the odds.

Other main interviews include durable Northern Ireland guitar rock trio Therapy ? who recently released a career highlight with their thirteenth album ‘Crooked Timber’ ; Shetland-born singer-songwriter and former Goya Dress frontwoman Astrid Williamson whose risk-taking fourth album ‘Here Come the Vikings’ comes out in June and much praised rising pop/rock band Official Secrets Act.

There are also interviews with NYC shoegazing/psychedelic trio signings A Place to Bury Strangers ; Kurt Cobain’s favourite band the Vaselines ; Swedish post-rock outfit Jeniferever ; singer-songwriter and actress Abigail Hopkins ; ambient project Sleepingdog and Nathaniel Cramp, the owner of London-based shoegazing label and club night, Sonic Cathedral.

We have a two part interview as well with Simon Reynolds, the music journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed books on post punk, 'Rip It Up and Start Again' and 'Totally Wired'.

Other highlights include a profile of bestselling New York act the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ; reviews of music-oriented films ‘Awaydays’ and ‘Sounds Like Teen Spirit’, and classic records, The Replacements’ 1983 second album, ‘Hootenanny’ and 1988 debut EP, ‘Superfuzz Bigmuff’. We also have plenty of live, album and single reviews.

We will have another album and singles reviews up-date the week after next and then another full edition in June.

Please check out as well the new pod of our long-term writers, Mark Rowland, Ben Howarth and Sarah Johnson, which they have been using as a forum to debate about some of the new music we are writing about on the site. There are two podcasts on-line already which can be found on most pages of the site, and Mark, Ben and Sarah hope to be doing another up-date next week.

Thank you for reading the Pennyblackmusic magazine.