> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Adam Bogacki > Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2003 1:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] NewsRadio excludes Linux audiostream users. > > > I would like to protest the limitation of NewsRadio to > MediaPlayer and RealPlayer. > > Using (debian) linux I often use xmms to audiostream but find > your site limited to the two dominant commercial modes of delivery. *SNIPPED*
So why not just download the RealPlayer for Linux? You don't even need root priv's to install it if you only need it for yourself :) The question that should have been posed (IMHO) would have been about providing streaming MP3. Here enters the problem; WMA and RAM both have certain in-built protections making duplication or storing the streams a little more than a trivial process (although not a LOT more). It's how NewsRadio protect their "scoop" to use the media term or copyrights. I usually only get my back up when a site/company decides to use a specific format for something and there is NO Linux/open-source replacement or native client (closed or open-source). In the case above, there IS Linux RealPlayer so I don't see the problem - it's only hard drive space :P --James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
