[Love Calm Quiet]

I'd like to be able to listen to NPR archives, but they use only RealPlayer - so clicking on "Listen" downloads mini-file-link; then I have to click on it to launch the stream (via a launch of RealPlayer). I guess they think this is user-friendly?

WORSE (and what I'd like help with):
When RealPlayer launches so I can listen to streaming... It says RP needs to "configure your system". If I say OK, it "has to close all open browsers". GRRRRRR.

Please tell me there's some setting / workaround! (I found nothing via forum search on "realplayer configure"). Thanks.

[TETENAL]

It has to do that only once. So why don't you just give in and let it do that once. It'll be less effort than trying to fight it.

[Love Calm Quiet]

Aye! Sorry: I forgot to mention that I've asked it to "configure" three times this morning (the first time it actually seemed to take time and do so).
Am I going to need to log out/in or something?

[TETENAL]

I needed to do nothing special. It just worked.

Did you try from an admin account?

[OAW]

RealPlayer seems to need to "configure" itself repeatedly for me. It's almost as if it "forgets" that it's already installed the browser plug-in. It is rather annoying.

OAW

[grobbins]

Originally Posted by Love Calm Quiet

I'd like to be able to listen to NPR archives, but they use only RealPlayer - so clicking on "Listen" downloads mini-file-link; then I have to click on it to launch the stream (via a launch of RealPlayer). I guess they think this is user-friendly?

That is apparently a bug in Safari where it doesn't hand off the downloaded file to the helper application. You can double-click the icons in Safari's downloads window, or avoid the problem by using the browser window built into RealPlayer to click audio/video links. The "globe" button in RealPlayer's window opens up the player's browser window.

Originally Posted by Love Calm Quiet

When RealPlayer launches so I can listen to streaming... It says RP needs to "configure your system". If I say OK, it "has to close all open browsers". GRRRRRR.

Please tell me there's some setting / workaround! (I found nothing via forum search on "realplayer configure"). Thanks.

It does this only once. If some browsers are running (Internet Explorer mainly, perhaps others) then any configuring it does will be undone by the browser when the browser quits, so it needs the browsers to not be running at the time; otherwise, it defers configuring the system until later.

[grobbins]

Originally Posted by Love Calm Quiet

Aye! Sorry: I forgot to mention that I've asked it to "configure" three times this morning (the first time it actually seemed to take time and do so).
Am I going to need to log out/in or something?

If it makes browsers quit and tries to configure the system more than once, then something on your system could be preventing RealPlayer from saving its preferences so that it knows it has done the configuring. It may also ask again if its plug-in was removed or needs to be updated.

In a terminal window, type

defaults read com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer RealPlayer\\BrowsersConfigured

and the response should be the number 1 if the player was able to save its preference indicating that the configuration was completed.

You can "fake" it into thinking that browser configuration was done by typing this into a terminal window,

defaults write com.RealNetworks.RealPlayer RealPlayer\\BrowsersConfigured 1

[Love Calm Quiet]

I was having OAW's experience... seeming to "forget" it had done the configuring. (yes, this was from admin acct.) Now, after several tries (and a sys restart) it *knock wood* seems to have taken.
Thanks for the additional strategy, grobbins. I may go there if it gets alzheimers again