[Dixielandjazz] Red Hot Jazz Site (was Davenport Blues)

[Don Kirkman]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:42:43 +0100, Andy Ling  wrote:

>Bob Smith wrote on 24/10/2011 13:20:45:
>
>> However, the Mac problem is something we can't address, so it needs 
>someone 
>> to solve this so that all you unfortunate owners of Macs can get to the 
>> recordings on Scott Alexander's magnificent work.
>> 
>
>I sent the following privately to Bill, but if this is a general "Mac"
>problem, others might find it useful.
>
>I'm not a fan of RealPlayer, so I try to avoid it. So far I have
>managed to. On a PC I use Firefox and VLC and this seems
>to work.

There is an alternative to Real Player that has worked well for me,
called, oddly, Real Player Alternative; it's widely available, e.g.,
at http://www.filehippo.com/download_real_alternative/.

I've also used VLC that Andy mentions--it's a player and codecs that
play Real Player files without needing Real Player installed; I don't
have it installed and don't especially care for the player itself, but
it does work.

Unfortunately for the Mac folks, Real Player Alternative is Windows
only.  I don't know of a Mac equivalent.

>Currently I am doing some work on Macs, so have one on my desk.
>So I thought I would play. I've tried with both Safari and
>Firefox and by default they try and use Quicktime, which doesn't
>work. I haven't tried installing RealPlayer, but I have installed
>VLC. After Quicktime fails you end up with a downloaded file
>(e.g. bodyandsoul.ra) If you right click on this there is an option
>in the menu to open in Finder. Once you've done that you can right
>click again and there is an option to "Open with...". Select that
>and you get a window where you can choose an App to open the file.
>By default it only has recommended apps, but if you change
>this to "All apps" you can then select VLC (assuming you have
>downloaded and installed it). This works for me. There is also
>an option to always use VLC. If it works, then it is probably
>worth choosing this option.

>Hope that helps. Having now got access to a Mac, if you still
>have problems, I might be in a better position to help.
>
>Regards
>
>Andy Ling
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Don Kirkman
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