In light of the news that the BBC is abandoning RealMedia for its live streaming and listen again services, I've decided to uninstall RealPlayer from my Mac. Because, as far as I can remember, the only web site that I visit that still uses RealMedia was the BBC's site and all of the streams that I used to listen to or watch have been replaced with Flash or Windows Media.
I'm therefore going to see how long I can survive without RealPlayer. Hopefully, it'll be 50 MB of program files which I'll never need to re-install. While the Mac version is far less annoying than its Windows counterpart, it feels strangely liberating to be rid of it.
I can’t remember the last time I used RealPlayer… In fact I haven’t even installed it since running Win7 or the last time I reinstalled WinXP (early 2007)
May it rest in pieces
Thats interesting news. Although this was the only reason I also had real audio player on, it also made it slightly easier to rip the streams for later listening on the ipod. It was a convoluted process but possible. Now I guess I’ll have to look at flash capturing software. Having said that, I only tend to listen to the Radio4 comedy show which is available as a podcast. BBC7 doesn’t do much podcasting though :-(