Adrian, I recommend disabling the Realplayer Message Center. Unfortunately, I disabled mine so long ago, I don't remember how I did it. But, in the Preferences tree view, scroll down to Message center, and see what you can find about disabling it.
In the main player window, in the View menu pull-down, make sure Normal mode is checked, and everything else is unchecked. I recommend using RP for ONLY those media types that will not play in WMP or Winamp. So, under the Media Types section of preferences, make sure that only Real Media types are checked. But, unfortunately, since the media types selection list is largely inaccessible, you will either need sighted assistance for this, or you will have to go through the complicated procedure that Gene asner has outlined elsewhere. (Let me know if you need me to go through this for you.) Finally, I don't recommend using RP's My Library. Any Real Media on your hard drive, you can browse to, right click on, and, from there, choose Play, burn, or whatever you wish. As for Real Media streams, the Favorites menuing system within RP, is quite accessible, and I recommend using it in preference to any of the stream selection methods built into RP. Indeed, you can copy RP favorites from where they are stored on your hard drive, to some more convenient folder, and use them whenever you want to listen to an RM stream, rather than starting RP, clicking on Favorites, etc. If you just click on the Favorites shortcut, wherever you have moved it to, it will automatically start RP with the relevant stream playing. Then, you only need ctrl-P and ctrl-S, to pause or stop the stream, respectively. Well, that ought to be enough to get you started. Let me know if you have any specific problems. Blessed Be, Dana D. S. Leslie, née C. R. Guttman Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: dsleslie Web: ÞE OL' PHILOSOPHIE SHOPPE Your Source for Discounted Ideas http://members.cox.net/dsleslie2/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:40 AM Subject: Re: Real Player Basics > Dana, > > Although I'm not the one who made the original query, thanks for this > suggestion. It makes a big difference. You indicate you might have other > suggestions for using RP. If it isn't too much trouble, I'd like to know > what they are. I'm not sure what to make of the remaining RP preference > choices. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dana S. Leslie > To: PC audio discussion list. > Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 6:58 PM > Subject: Re: Real Player Basics > > Gary, > > It's been a long time since I've done this, so I'm operating from memory. > If > some of these suggestions don't work, let me know, and I'll try to figure > out what I'm overlooking. > > When you start Realplayer, the first thing you want to do is maximize the > window. (The menubar won't read properly until you do.) > > Then, go to Tools, Preferences. The dialogue is arrange as a tree view. At > the top of the tree view are the general preferences. Highlight this > branch, > and tab once. This should take you to an option where you can select > Player > Only (no media browser), to open at start up. I think choosing this option > will eliminate the apparent web page that comes up when you first start > the > program. > > Let me know if these suggestions work. If so, we can look at other > preference options that make Realplayer easier to access. > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > __________ NOD32 1.1804 (20061015) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
