Tech: How many can hear .rm files? was: Boudewijn's website

Sally Caves wrote:
>
> Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> >
> > Dear people,
> >
> > I've just updated our website again. It's a sort of experimental, interim
> > update. I've converted all the  sound files to realaudio files, and I
> > wonder whether I've done this right, and whether everyone can hear
> > everything, for instance at
> >
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/valdyas/taal/hanleni_halsen/index.html
>
> I can hear Irina's song just fine, Boudewijn.  As I did before.  Great!
No, my mistake.   Too hasty, here.  I clicked on the old wave file.
Your
new realaudio file is actually in realmedia, and I need a plug-in to
read a .rm file.  Is anybody else in this boat?  It strikes me, then,
that
getting Real Player Plus G2 will not solve the problem.  It's a problem
with
my Netscape Version, isn't it?  How many others of you out there can
hear
Boudewijn's .rm file (the Real Audio file)?  How many can't?  I have
Netscape Communicator 4.0, but I need to know what plug-in will let me
hear
.rm files.  When I click on "more info" it puts me in a page that says
that
I am missing some cool features that a plug-in will remedy, but after
that
it's pretty vague.  Weirdly, when I uploaded .rm files to my website and
tried to play them, they printed out in graphic form as gibberish.  Not
the "you have started to download a format with..." message.

I found it easier just to change the extensions from .rm to .ra.  But I
can hardly ask you to do that for seventy sound files!  Does your new
recorder allow you to save in .ra format?  If so, what recorder do you
have?

Sally

> > is now in realaudio format.
>
> Ironically, while I could hear these quite well a few days ago, now
> I get the dreaded message that always makes me shudder: "you have begun
> to download a file with audio/x-pn-realvideo.  Click on "more info" to
> learn how to adjust your Netscape capabilities."  I always
> hit cancel.  If you are using a consistent format, why can I still hear
> Irina's Hanleni Halsen but not your spoken Denden anymore?
This has been answered.  Again, sorry!