[AGL] RealPlayer vs Winamp

[Gerry]

Yes, the Cressida, love it more each trip. No problems in 20K of ownership.

Yes, Broadband, DISH and HD. Gilanet now has fast internet too, 512bps.

Javelinas can tear up more fence on their way out than I can keep repaired.
I do have 3 sides of the property pretty well fenced, but the 4th was hit
hard by the flood and I have only fixed most of it, patchup job. Keeps the
cows out.

Have not yet warmed to Monteverdi...
G




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] RealPlayer vs Winamp



> > Mike,

> > I use Rhapsody for music. It is a service connected with Real, uses Real

> > Player stream for outlet, etc. Mostly use WinPlayer for copying CD's and

> > some radio. Also have XM radio in the car for those 70 mile, twice

weekly

> > round trips to the grocery store. Quicktime is used by some radio

stations

> > (Apple's rival to Win and Real). For my ears the sound of all is

> acceptable.

> > I don't know the details of the technology but they seem to be the same

> > service dressed up in different clothes.

>

> The car is still the Toyota Cressida, right? I was wondering

> if you keep a junker to run parts with just in case.

>

> > Not many years ago I lived in the wilderness in a camper with tent, no

> > electricity, no radio, river nearby for bathing and washing dishes.

> Comfort

> > was not included in the virtues of this life which I embraced for a few

> > years. But alas, age has relegated me to the couch much more often than

> ever

> > before. In this time I am better entertained than ever before, all kinds

> of

> > options, a veritable wonderland. And this is all in a setting that is

> > literally in the wild floodplain of a wild river (currently threatening

to

> > flood) in the far outback of Southwestern NM where human beings are

rare.

> > Who'd a thunk it?

>

> Yup, computers. Do you have broadband? Satellite broadband?

>

> > When the javelina herd showed up at my doorstep on Saturday, it was a

> shock

> > of immediate reality that I had a slight delay in coming to grips

> > with...wanted to reach for a remote control and click them away. How

times

> > change. But I woke up and reacted typically. Managed to bag the leader

of

> > the herd (about 20 of them, large-medium-small). Hate to kill them

anymore

> > but I do consider them to be threatening and would just as soon they

> stayed

> > outside my fenceline.

>

> The others ran out the way they came in and then you went and fixed the

> fence?

>

> > Back to the music. This year I am on a Villa-Lobos trip, plan to make

him

> my

> > main attraction all year. He was so prodigious I may need a year to get

> > through his works. Quite a guy, Heitor.

>

> Different strokes for different folks! I would probably kill myself before

> the year of listening to Villa-Lobos was out. As Oscar Wilde said

> on his deathbed in a Paris hotel, "Either I or the wall paper must go."

>

> We plan to take my aged mother-in-law to a Monteverdi concert at

> the First English Lutheran church on 30th and Whitis. Voice and

> ancient instruments. This Saturday at 8pm.

>

>