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4/29/2004

NPR.org raises my ire

Alright, I'm about to go off. I can't tell you how long I've spent this morning trying to listen to one segment of the Tavis Smiley show. First of all, NPR archives their show in two formats only - Windows Media and Real Audio. Talk about institutional. On Linux, I couldn't get the rmxmms plugin working [a check of their site shows lots of complaints about that] and the Linux download from Real plays their stupid startup wav file, then locks out my soundcard. So after fighting the good fight for a while, I had to boot over to the windows side of the street to do some other work. Figuring I'd have better luck here, I went over to the site, click the link, and... NOTHING! Not only do they use Real, but they use .smil, which is based on xml. Now using xml is kind of cool, except when you dish up errors like this "XML: Bad end tag near line 7: ". Why the heck can't they use mp3s and m3u like the rest of us?

posted by George Nemeth # 4/29/2004 09:13:00 AM

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