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01 April 2004

Air America & Mac OS X

For those asking me what's up with all the RealOne Player litter on the desktop when trying to listen to Air America Radio, here's a tip for adding Air America directly to RealOne Player's Favorites list.

  • launch RealOne Player (free version is fine)
  • File > Open Location...
  • a panel opens asking you to enter a URL. paste http://play.rbn.com/?url=airam/airam/live/live.rm&proto=rtsp into that field and press the Open button
  • Air America should load and begin playing
  • once it's playing, Favorites > Add Current to Favorites...
  • change the Title to Air America Radio (or whatever)

    Now when you want to listen, just fire up RealOne Player and pick Air America from Favorites. That will avoid the whole download-this-little-file-and-launch problem that leaves RealPlayer litter everywhere.

    Update: the stream seems a lot more stable this morning, so hopefully you won't have to reload all that often.

    • Posted to Technogeek by Terrence Talbot at 9:29 AM
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