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listening to RAM streams in iTunes -- possible?
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I'm trying to stream the BBC world service through iTunes. is there any way to listen to Real Audio streams through it?
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Originally posted by akkeri:
I'm trying to stream the BBC world service through iTunes. is there any way to listen to Real Audio streams through it?
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"Evil is Powerless If the Good are Unafraid." -Ronald Reagan
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As a more complete answer: RAM is Real Audio's format, and thus QuickTime can't play it (the same is true of WMF). Since iTunes depends on QuickTime to do all it's heavy lifting it cannot play RAM files.
You can always use Real Player though...
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i was hoping to avoid using Real Player. i know that RA isn't supported by Quicktime... just thought there might have been a hack or patch.
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I don't understand why BBC would be using RealAudio in the first place.. Realplayer is SOOO late 90's 
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Originally posted by nooon:
I don't understand why BBC would be using RealAudio in the first place.. Realplayer is SOOO late 90's
They went away from Quicktime a few years ago. Bad decision on there part IMO. But what can you do.
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Simple answer: Real payed for their bandwidth (at least for a while).
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Originally posted by larkost:
Simple answer: Real payed for their bandwidth (at least for a while).
Yep, I complained at the time, but they cited the financial side as the reason for the switch...
Probably goes some way to explaining the anti Mac attitude on the BBC 'tech news' section too.
In all honesty though, I find Realplayer for OSX to be pretty good, and much, much better than the PC version.
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