And of course the reasons to do this a

1) Real's tight control over its proprietary format
2) An unwillingness to harbor on your PC Real's obnoxious, buggy, maddening
and
intrusive RealOne software.
3) A desire to enjoy the content on the tens of millions of MP3 or MP3/WMA
devices out there that don't support the Real encoding, such as car CD's,
headphone units, DVD players.

But that is the reason why the stuff was encoded with Real in the first
place, to prevent this from being done. Realaudio exists so that the
folks that created the file have control over how it is decoded.

If you don't like it, don't encode with Real.
--scott


I will also avoid it as much as possible. The software is full of bugs and
installing it is a RealPain!
In one installation it caused multiple corruptions of the registry. It took a
number of tries before it finally took.
At another station they desire to have CoolEdit Pro as their default player on
the studio computers. RealOne always, on its own, modifies the file
associations so *it* is the default player. Does anyone have any solutions for
that one?

Bob Radil
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