Try control shift F in windows media player to fast forward. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Skarstad Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:09 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: the paul harvey site
Hi Steve After doing a bit of investigation, it really does look like you might be better off just letting windows media player handle the job. You *can* get Winamp to play the thing, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops and I don't know how dedicated you are to actually doing this? here's what I had to do to get it to work here, and granted it might not even work for other folks. 1. I visited the site as you suggested, but instead of clicking on the link first, i right clicked and chose save target as... and looked at the file extention. it's a .asx file, which is a playlist containing an address for a windows media stream, or in this case an archive. 2. I clicked open to see what would happen. Just like with yours, Winamp came up and it tried, unsuccessfully, to play 2 different files, I believe one of them was probably some kind of commercial or an add, and the second one was the actual show, just a guess. 3. Now from hanging out on the Winamp4TheBlind list I run, and getting similar questions, people have come up with all kinds of interesting ways of getting windows media stuff to play in Winamp, I was rather surprised at the lengths some of them would go to just to listen to a stream, it was pretty cool actually. Through a bit of investigation, I figured out that Winamp, for some crazy reason, won't play stuff that's in a .asx file. It sits there trying to connect but just won't play. So, to get it to play, what i had to do was download the asx file to my hard drive, open it up in note pad, copy and paste the second address to the clipboard, and then copy it into the open location dialogue of Winamp with control plus l. also, there was a quote mark I had to remove at the end of the address too so you have to be careful about that as well. I pressed enter and after waiting a few seconds, the stream did play, but man that is just way too much for anyone to have to go through *just* so it'll play in Winamp. so if you *really* are dedicated to doing it this way, that's how I did it, but it just seems to me that it'd be much easier for windows media player to handle it. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but that's how it is for me. and from how it looks that's probably how it is for you as well. Sorry i can't see any easier way to do it. if anyone knows of an easier way I'd like to know, because that's a commonly asked question on the list. I don't listen to a lot of windows media streams myself but i know lots of people who do and it's unfortunate that there isn't an easier way. at least, not that I know of. Thanks. At 04:05 PM 10/25/2007, you wrote: >Okay we need more soldiers here. Albert also found when he went to the >site www.paulharvey.com he can't get the new winamp to play the >broadcast. To get it to play you find lets say Tuesday and click the >win link. the qt is for quick time. The thing is these broadcasts use >to play fine on the older versions of winamp. >I like using winamp because I can fast forward past the commercials. >these broadcasts also play fine in windows media player. the fast >forward is unavailable in media player. > > > >Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >__________ NOD32 2617 (20071025) Information __________ > >This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >http://www.eset.com Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
