Viddi Radio Player

[Frank Bohan]

I stumbled upon ViddiRadioPlayer, a nice radio player which enables you to
choose programs by genre, country or favourites. Very easy to use -- I had
stations in Cuba, China, Iceland and Finland within ten minutes of finishing
the installation.
http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/

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Frank Bohan
¶ Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Frank Bohan wrote in

I stumbled upon ViddiRadioPlayer, a nice radio player which enables you to
choose programs by genre, country or favourites. Very easy to use -- I had
stations in Cuba, China, Iceland and Finland within ten minutes of finishing
the installation.
http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/

Yes very nice, but before downloading people should know that it
requires Real Player to work, according to the System Requirements
link on the bottom of the above page. Fwiw I seem to recall others
have said it will also work with the older less intrusive (*) versions
of RealPlayer (version 8). Older version of Real Player can be found
at <http://forms.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html>. And maybe the
Viddi Radio player will also work with JetAudio
<http://www.jetaudio.com/> (if JetAudio includes the relevant
RMOC3260.DLL file - so one does not have to install Real Player by it
self)

(*) about more current version(s) of Real Audio, see for example
<http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-04-28.htm#1>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[MAMEngineer]

¶ Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Cave paintings?

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 26 Jan 2004, Bjorn Simonsen wrote

Frank Bohan wrote in


Yes very nice, but before downloading people should know that it
requires Real Player to work, according to the System Requirements
link on the bottom of the above page. Fwiw I seem to recall others
have said it will also work with the older less intrusive (*)
versions of RealPlayer (version 8).

I just checked, and I'm still on Version 7 of RealPlayer; I can
confirm that ViddiRadioPlayer works fine with that.

 

[Jordan]

I stumbled upon ViddiRadioPlayer, a nice radio player which enables
you to choose programs by genre, country or favourites. Very easy to
use -- I had stations in Cuba, China, Iceland and Finland within ten
minutes of finishing the installation.
http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/

Excellent find Frank!

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Harvey Van Sickle wrote in

I just checked, and I'm still on Version 7 of RealPlayer;
I can confirm that ViddiRadioPlayer works fine with that.

Thanks, good to know that the Viddi Player will also work
with RealPlayer at least as old as versjon 7.

Still curios if, as said, the Viddi player - "will also work with
JetAudio <http://www.jetaudio.com/> (if JetAudio includes the
relevantRMOC3260.DLL file - so one does not have to install Real
Player by itself)" - so if anyone knows....

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Frank Bohan]

Excellent find Frank!

Thanks, Jordan. I have also found Netscape Radio: http://www.netscape.com/
Despite the name I got this with IE6 although I do have Netscape installed.
I do not know whether it is necessary to have Netscape -- there do not seem
to be any system requirements stipulated.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Start a new movement - eat prunes.

 

[Chuck Mattsen]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:49:06 -0000

Frank> Thanks, Jordan. I have also found Netscape Radio: http://www.netscape.c
Frank> om/ Despite the name I got this with IE6 although I do have
Frank> Netscape installed. I do not know whether it is necessary to
Frank> have Netscape -- there do not seem to be any system requirements
Frank> stipulated.

Netscape's not required; it's essentially a rebranding of the old
Spinner.com player. Adware. Benign IMO, but adware.

--
Chuck Mattsen <[email protected]>
(Remove CLOTHING before replying)

Random Thought/Quote For This Message:
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[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 27 Jan 2004, Bjorn Simonsen wrote

Harvey Van Sickle wrote in
<[email protected]>:


Thanks, good to know that the Viddi Player will also work
with RealPlayer at least as old as versjon 7.

I might even be on version 6 of RealPlayer One: the info I get from
Help>About is that it's "Build 6.0.10.505"; if I click on "Version",
though, I get "Auto Update 7.0.0.1437".

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Harvey Van Sickle wrote in

I might even be on version 6 of RealPlayer One: the info I get from
Help>About is that it's "Build 6.0.10.505"; if I click on "Version",
though, I get "Auto Update 7.0.0.1437".

The first number probably refers to the original install, the second
the version its been (auto) updated to when online. My guess only.
Knowing that version 7 works with Viddi should be good enough though,
since AFAIK it was only after version 8 that Real Player became
intrusive beyond what many consider acceptable (when/if they learn
about it). (I'm no expert on that topic though, just referring to what
I have read/heard - if memory serves....

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Roger Parks wrote in

FWIW, that's my impression as well. IIRC, RP8 was touted by Real as being
less intrusive than RP7 - which had received a lot of criticism for being
beyond acceptability (back then; today, of course, RP10 is worse than
all).

Didn't know that about ver 7, good to know, thanks.

What is your impression of windows media player; regarding spying?

None right now, but I'm sure others do, you could try a search at
www.spywareinfo.com like <http://makeashorterlink.com/?P24B51537>
(have not read the hits this gave - just tried a search)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Roger Parks]

Harvey Van Sickle wrote in


The first number probably refers to the original install, the second
the version its been (auto) updated to when online. My guess only.
Knowing that version 7 works with Viddi should be good enough though,
since AFAIK it was only after version 8 that Real Player became
intrusive beyond what many consider acceptable (when/if they learn
about it). (I'm no expert on that topic though, just referring to what
I have read/heard - if memory serves....

FWIW, that's my impression as well. IIRC, RP8 was touted by Real as being
less intrusive than RP7 - which had received a lot of criticism for being
beyond acceptability (back then; today, of course, RP10 is worse than
all).

What is your impression of windows media player; regarding spying? I have
WMP 6 with the wmp 8 codecs, and it has trouble at an increasing number of
sites/streams - and I'm debating on going to WMP 7 !??

 

[Steven Burn]

What is your impression of windows media player; regarding spying? I have
WMP 6 with the wmp 8 codecs, and it has trouble at an increasing number of
sites/streams - and I'm debating on going to WMP 7 !??

I can't find the codecs for WMP unfortunately (

But anyway, as far as WMP7 is concerned, stay away from it. I've got WMP7
and it is the most annoyingly bloated piece of cr_p I've ever used, WMP9
crashes on my PC, and WMP8 just won't install......lol

Oh the joys.

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Harvey Van Sickle wrote in

While we're on the subject of players, I've been using Media Player
Classic. It seems pretty robust, and -- wonder of wonders -- is a
simple executable which doesn't install to the registry (other than
changing the default associations if you ask it to).

Anybody else tried this one? It's downloadable from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

I have. Dont need to use media player much, but I have I have tried
the Classic - and it has not failed me once so far - at least as I can
recall. One thing though, it may, for all I know - benefit from the
fact that I had Windows latest media player installed at the time (Wmp
8 I think) when I installed Classic. Could be relevant if it uses the
same codecs and/other files and so on. Don't know.

A google search on "Media Player Classic" in this group
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?U31E21537> returned many hits.

PS, maybe you should start a new thread on that - if needed, I mean -
people that could answer your question might miss it when "buried"
here in the Viddi thread?

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 27 Jan 2004, Roger Parks wrote

FWIW, that's my impression as well. IIRC, RP8 was touted by Real
as being less intrusive than RP7 - which had received a lot of
criticism for being beyond acceptability (back then; today, of
course, RP10 is worse than all).

What is your impression of windows media player; regarding spying?
I have WMP 6 with the wmp 8 codecs, and it has trouble at an
increasing number of sites/streams - and I'm debating on going to
WMP 7 !??

While we're on the subject of players, I've been using Media Player
Classic. It seems pretty robust, and -- wonder of wonders -- is a
simple executable which doesn't install to the registry (other than
changing the default associations if you ask it to).

Anybody else tried this one? It's downloadable from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/

 

[dszady]

I stumbled upon ViddiRadioPlayer, a nice radio player which enables you to
choose programs by genre, country or favourites. Very easy to use -- I had
stations in Cuba, China, Iceland and Finland within ten minutes of finishing
the installation.
http://www.viddiradioplayer.com/

When WinAmp was good.
http://www.winampheaven.net/newlook/oldversions2.htm

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 27 Jan 2004, Bjorn Simonsen wrote

Harvey Van Sickle wrote in
<[email protected]>:

Re: Media Player Classic

-snip-

A google search on "Media Player Classic" in this group
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?U31E21537> returned many hits.

PS, maybe you should start a new thread on that - if needed, I
mean - people that could answer your question might miss it when
"buried" here in the Viddi thread?

Thanks for the link; I probably picked up a pointer to it in here in
the first place!

Asking further probably isn't necessary; I don't really use media
players a great deal -- this is primarily a work machine rather than a
multimedia one -- and I was just sort of checking if there was some
widely-known reason to avoid it.

It's good to hear it's considered a solid product.

 

[Jordan]

On 26 Jan 2004, Bjorn Simonsen wrote


I just checked, and I'm still on Version 7 of RealPlayer; I can
confirm that ViddiRadioPlayer works fine with that.

I was using Real Player 8 (on Win98SE) with Viddi and just recently starting
getting random application crashes in mp3f3260.dll located in Program
Files>Common Files>Real>Plugins. FWIW, it's the MPEG Audio File Format
Plugin for RealSystem G2, version 6.0.9.799. I went to the Viddi forum and
saw that the author insists that RealOne must be *installed* at least until
the 2.0 version comes out.

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

Jordan wrote in

I was using Real Player 8 (on Win98SE) with Viddi and just recently starting
getting random application crashes in mp3f3260.dll located in Program
Files>Common Files>Real>Plugins. FWIW, it's the MPEG Audio File Format
Plugin for RealSystem G2, version 6.0.9.799. I went to the Viddi forum and
saw that the author insists that RealOne must be *installed* at least until
the 2.0 version comes out.

Ouch. Thanks for the info.
..... fwiw - I assume this is only a possible problem, something that
"might" happen (not for you of course - it already happened), compared
to an inevitable one. So - if I really needed and/or wanted the Viddi
player now (I don't) I would have installed Real Player 8 and Viddi
and use Viddi for as long as... . and if lucky I would never
experience the circumstance that brings about a crash, and I could run
Viddi to my pleasure - while I'd have my eyes open for other and
better alternatives of course. If eventually it did crash - at least
now I would know (thanks to you) what might have caused it - and gone
for the uninstall button instead of spending time researching my
computer for possible conflicts or other likely causes.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen