Let me reiterate that I also tried copying the actual URL used by Win Media Player to fetch the piece and placing the URL in Winamp. I haven't tried this yet, but I'll bet windows will not allow it. I was going to try to replace the mplayer.exe (the Win Med Player file) with the WinAmp executable file (mplayerc.exe) after renaming it to mplayer.exe. I expect this behavior is intentional Somebody must have worked hard to get it to do this. However, nothing I have tried will cause WinAmp to come up instead of WMP.

When I click on the website button to play the file with Windows Media Player, WMP comes up and it does play the file. Real Alternative plays this file quite nicely - it downloads the audio from the web. However, it's not a music file, only a pointer text file about 390 bytes containing info about the piece. (I use Real Alternative instead of Real Player.)Ĭlicking Real Player lets me save the file or run it. However, on some websites, notably the Natl Public Radio site (NPR.ORG,) when I click a 'lsiten'īutton' A window pops up giving me the choice of Real Player or windows media Player. If I double ckick on a an audio file listed Explorer, WinAmp does come up as I expect it to. Then I checked file ssociations under Control Panel > Folders. I tried 'Select ALL' when setting file associations in Winamp.

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