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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 02:58:14 +0000
sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:

> In DOS I can play midis without wave table or patches, that sound like a 
> kazoo.

   There are a few like that - and some of them can only play one track.
If you want a DOS MIDI player, try FreeCDP. It is freeware, written by
Florian Xaver.   Go to:

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225895/drdos/drplayer.htm

   There are a heap of DOS players of all sorts there.

>  Is there something similar for linux?

   Not that I am aware of.  And I wouldn't recommend anything that 
plays MIDIs like that - I speak as a musician.


> Most of the online radio stations call for Windows Media Player now and 
> you say mplayer is the linux equivalent and it also plays movies. 

    Xine also plays Windos Media (.wmv, .asf)

> I would 
> like to see a version that plays only internet radio files.  

   Don't think there is such an animal.

> >    I get RealPlayer to be called from Links graphical when running under 
> > X.   
> 
> Please explain exactly how you set this up in Setup - associations and 
> file extensions, I presume.  Thanks.  It took me two hours of 
> experimenting to get it working with Opera.  audio/x-pn something or 
> other?  ram,rm,rmm,rpm as file extensions?

   It was working, but I seem to have adjusted it to death.  :(
I will have a play later, and get back to you.

Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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