Using the radio tuner with NN7

I frequently use RealOne Player's radio tuner. When you pick a station from it in IE, it just loads RealPlayer and starts receiving the music. Not in NN 7. It opens a dialog box asking you if you want to save a ".ram" file, which you must answer OK to, and after saving it, another dialog box appears giving you the choice of launching the file, after which the music starts. Pain in the a**. It's worse if you have already saved a file because when you click on a station that you've listened to before, and have the .ram file for it already saved, it asks you again to save it, and because it already exists, you get the yet another dialog box asking if you want to overwrite. So you go through 3 dialog boxes before the d**n thing will play.

I hoped there was some way to automate this process so I don't have to bother with it (like it is in IE), but have searched the menubar and can find nothing that pertains to it. Is there any way in NN 7 to select a station from the radio guide and have it simply start playing without a bunch if intervening dialog boxes?

 

The only thing I can think of is manually configuring realone as a helper application, and telling N7 what to do with the .ram file.

This is just a guess, but you might try it after backing up your profile (it's not dangerous, but it never hurts to be safe)

edit/prefs/helper applications
new type button
description of type = realone
file extension = ram
mime type = x-pn-realaudio (guessing here, hopefully someone else will chime in, or if you have N4.x, you can check there and copy the mime type...)
application to use = full path to realone.exe (or whatever the name of the .exe ...).

The first time you run it, you may have to tell N7 to just open the file, and not bother you about it again.

If this doesn't work you can just delete the entry from "helper applications ". Perhaps Ramona has something more...

HTH

tranquilo

 

Tranquilo: I went to preferences, and RealOne is already registered there. Description of Type is audio/x-pn-realaudio. Everything else is there, but the application to use was empty, so I entered the fulll path (c:\program files\real\realplayer\realplay.exe). Did nothing; works the same as it has.

What happens if you try to play a station (if you don't have broadband, you probably don't do that)? I assume you use Netscape....

 

Welcome to the Forum, DKTaber!

Hi DK,

I use MusicMatch Jukebox as my default media player, but do have RealPlayer 8 Basic installed for those few occasions I might want to use the player. I don't use IE, so have no comparison to make.

Yes, there have been problems with the Players and Netscape 7.0. Following are NG Threads that might interest you:

snews://secnews.netscape.com/3D9364D9.1010604@comcast.net
snews://secnews.netscape.com/ankj3g$93c4@ripley.netscape.com

Ramona

 

Your suggestion to visit the site you posted in your message was right on! I feel better that I'm not the only one with the problem. However, it appears that it is not currently solvable because the problem is a glitch between NN7 and RealOne, and appears to be more NN7's fault, since RealOne works with previous version of NN. At this point, then, I think I will just wait until Netscape issues a fix, and use IE for playing audio.

Thanks for the quick response.