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

I'm afraid you're getting a lot of little mails from me! The weather's far
too hot in these parts to be very coherent ;-).

On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Sally Caves wrote:

> 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 can play my own files with the Linux version of the G2 player, so
installing that ought to solve your problems. Of course, whether it
wouldn't cause a whole raft of new problems is anyones guess.

>
> 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?
>
I've just put up a test. I've renamed one file from .rm to .ra
and put a testpage up in Amsterdam. If you could try:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/test/index.html

and report whether this worked or whether you got a stream of
gibberish on your screen (or any other error message) I would
be very grateful. If it works, I'll simply rename all my files.


Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt