[mac4theblind] Re: Extremely minor and I do mean minor, annoyance with streaming Audio
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:31:27 -0400
try vo-shift-m. if you say sometimes, I wonder what the difference is?
It may be a javascript thing in which case, it is possible the the context menu
won't even have the play choice in it.
On Mar 12, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Christohper-Mark Gilland wrote:
OK, this is pretty minor, honestly, but I figured I'd at least ask, as it never
hurts to do so, ey?
Some times, I'll be on a web site either in Safari, or in Google Chrome
Canary... usually Safari... which has a link I can hit vo+space on to play an
internet audio stream.
I'm finding that on my Windows machine, if I select the link, WinAmp will
automatically pop up and start playing the stream, no questions asked. On the
mac, however, I'm finding that pressing vo+space will simply throw the M3U, or
whatever it is into my downloads. I then, have to hide my browser, go all? the
way back to my Finder, get to the file, then hit command+O on it to open it.
Wow! What a pain in the kneck! Obviously, I am perfectly aware, before anyone
gripes that I can just hit vo+shift+M instead of vo+space on the link, then
vo+down arrow to open.
Perhaps that's the only other way to do it, and if so, that's perfectly fine.
I have no objection to doing it that way, it's just that for me, I don't know
why, but hitting vo+shift+M on a link is a bit awquard. Agfain, don't know
why, but, it is, never the less, so there. LOL! Escentially, for one thing, I
can't go into the finder, and reassociate the file type to open in, say... vlc,
or say, Quicktime instead of ITunes. Well, ok, fine, I mean, technically
speaking I can, but there are actually times I like ITunes openning M3U
internet streams, as then in my sources list, it makes a playlist called
internet feeds or something to that effect where all those streams go, so later
I can just pop open ITunes without going all the way to the web site. On the
same note however, there are more times that I honestly don't want the m3u's
going into my ITunes library. Say, if it's a stream I'm probably only going to
play on or two times. Yeah I know I'm lazy, I could just go delete it from the
library, you're right, I could, again, I never said this was a big deal per
sey, keep that in mind. I only stateed I'm wonderring if I can somehow make it
where hitting vo+space would automatically open the stream.
I have Safari set to not automatically open safe files after download, as I
don't want it thinking for me. I don't always want to open a file safe or not
after finished downloading. Maybe I'm just weird, but...
Anyway, thanks for any help, should there be any further suggestions.
Chris.
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