Blankhi tony i have the 3 players installed, real, wmp and winamp. whenever i go to a station , as in your example that uses real then the station just opens in that player. almost as if it overrides the default. otherwise when in mikes world radio the list of stations sometimes use both real and wmp, but as you say not always. i think maybe flor could throw a little light on the subject as to whether a station that uses real opens with it even if another player is the default. as i say i have the 3 players installed and the one that is needed just 'kicks in' .....i am totally lost at this stage as to which of them is now my default! any further Flor? regards Paul H ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Sweeney To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:56 PM Subject: [vicsireland] Re: internet radio picking a player Hi Paul, I think it was step 6 where I was getting a little woolly! I had problems with accsessing stations on that site before and thought that it must be something I was doing wrong! One of course doesn't select a player say from a drop-down or something but when you enter on a station link that station should in theory at any rate open? Now I do know that it is advisable to install all of the 3 major players to enable stations to play! Trust I am good so far! I think that I may have a problem in the way that my system is configured! Here's just one question! Say I have WMP as my default player and say I want to play a Beeb station which I think uses Real Player or Alternative, will the BBC station play in Real Player say, although I have WMP as my default player. In other words is it a disadvantage sometimes to have one player or others as default. Any other commentss or suggestions from you or others gratefully appreciated. Thanks, Tony. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Halligan To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:26 AM Subject: [vicsireland] internet radio picking a player hi tony and folks in the tutorial i posted on recording internet radio i mentioned that some stations use real player and some use windows media player. using the instructions in the tutorial for the website mentioned will let you identify which stations use which player. personally i have both real player and windows media player installed to widen my choice of stations i can play but as far as i can figure if a station uses real player and you only have wmp then you are snookered! below are the steps in the tutorial that are relevant to this question Keep pressing your down arrow until you come to the station you want, in our example radio one extra. 6 when you get to the station you will hear the following First the station name Second the location of the station Third jaws will say Graphic and then the player you can use i.e. if it says graphic real audio you can use real player to play and record the station. If jaws says graphic and windows media player you can use that one and so on Note that if jaws announces map then the station will open in real player too. 7 now we wanted radio one extra in Dublin and have got to the station name Arrow down again and we hear Dublin, its location Arrow down again and we hear graphic real audio which means the station can be played through real player arrow down again you will hear jaws say graphic windows media but we want to arrow down past this arrow again and jaws says link 32 kbps this is the link to open and listen to the station 8 Press enter and the station opens in real player after a few seconds. Be patient i use the mikesworldradio site because it is not so tricky to navigate. there are numerous sites like shoutcast.com or radio365 which you might find more or less easier to navigate. hope that clears things a little, but contact me either on list or offlist tigerone@xxxxxxxxxx if you run into any other glitchs, god knows it took me 3 years to get my head around it. regards Paul H