Sunday, 17 May 2009

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.

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