[thelist] Getting .rm file properties with PHP

Andrew Clover and at doxdesk.com
Thu Jan 24 08:22:37 CST 2002


Bill Haenel <bill at webmarketingworx.com> wrote:

> Seems like RealNetworks would be a bit further ahead if their formats
> weren't so obscure.

On the other hand, with a proper open format, someone would probably have
written a player for RealAudio that isn't as unbelievably awful as
RealPlayer, so they'd have lost their captive audience!

> (Except on this RealOne thing - I can't ever forgive their sneaky
> marketing tactics on that one!)

Ah, just the latest in a long pattern of designing software that puts
the interests of RealNetworks above what the user actually wants.

PS. I don't like Real very much. ;-)

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