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RE: Real One

Subject: RE: Real One
From: Klas Strandberg <>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:49:05 +0200
Yes, it can be very disturbing.

Klas.

At 17:25 2003-06-23 -0700, you wrote:
>Funny, I was just downloading one of Martyn's sounds and it plays
>automagically in quicktime and I haven't been able to find yet how to
>make it stop.  
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>More and more I hate it when I spend more time in the care and feeding
>of the computer than doing what I'm really trying to do!  Slow
>progression from EE to luddite, I fear.  
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Klas Strandberg  
>Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:39 PM
>To: 
>Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Real One
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>I posted two ravens at telinga.com
>
>Then: 
>May I take up this Real question again. 
>
>I posted "ravens" to my site as mp3. To check it, I clicked at the link.
>A
>Real audio program started and replayed the file as .mpga (or whatever).
>It
>sounded terrible!! A twisted frequency curve and broken and scratchy. 
>
>Then I right clicked at the link and took "save target". It downloaded
>for a
>few minutes and I planned to replay the file by my WaveLab.
>
>But I got another .mpga file!! - which could only be replayed by the
>Real
>program, with a terrible result!
>I had to rename the file to MP3 to make WaveLab replay it! Then it
>turned
>out okay.
>
>I was really surprised, both that Real sounds so terribly bad, and that
>Real
>renames mp3 files into it's own format.
>
>I wonder: How many people out there listen to the sounds we post with
>useless programs like Real - without knowing how useless it is?? Files
>which
>we post because we like them, but which others cannot appreciate.
>
>I know I did! When I downloaded Martyn's "Eagles & waterfowl" I got it
>as
>mpga and replayed it with Real. 
>
>I am very sorry, Martyn! I will never do it again, but I didn't know!
>Now I
>know better.
>
>Another thing: Please don't forget to remove the cellophan from your DAT
>tapes and MD's BEFORE you start the excursion! I lost more than five
>minutes
>of a very nice recording session last night, just because I didn't have
>a
>sharp object to remove the fu... 
>
>Klas.
>
>Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
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