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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 401184" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=391074&highlight=radio#post391074" target="_blank"><strong>This thread</strong></a> discusses a similar problem. Maybe the problems are related because your link has the same effect on my Firefox installation as those in the older thread do. Firefox freezes, and the force-quit box says Firefox stopped responding.</p><p></p><p>As the station does with you, it played for a minute or so, then went mute, freezing the browser.Before Firefox froze, I went into it's page info, then clicked on the Media tab and found the embedded station file. It's .asx, so in a perfect world, Flip4Mac should play it. But the file wouldn't save to my computer and in this case, the URL is truncated. This is the file: /asx/estrangeiro/rcp96.asx</p><p></p><p>I save as many stations this way as allow users to do so, so I need only click on the file, rather than having to go to the web page. But more and more stations won't allow this.</p><p></p><p>However, if a file will save, opening it with TextEdit may reveal two or more URL addresses within. The first is to a recording that hands off to the second, live-broadcast URL. In your case, when the recording starts again, maybe the first URL doesn't quit properly, or perhaps some other programming problem hands the live-broadcast URL back to the first.</p><p></p><p>But with these types of files — if they can be saved — deleting with TextEdit the first URL to the recording eliminates it.</p><p></p><p>The easiest files to see how this works are RealPlayer's on the BBC site that allows free-standing files. Some of them behave this way — maybe BBC 2's. If you download one that plays a recording first, and open it with TextEdit, you could better understand the mechanics of the things (some .asx files behave the same way).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 401184, member: 3889"] [URL="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=391074&highlight=radio#post391074"][B]This thread[/B][/URL] discusses a similar problem. Maybe the problems are related because your link has the same effect on my Firefox installation as those in the older thread do. Firefox freezes, and the force-quit box says Firefox stopped responding. As the station does with you, it played for a minute or so, then went mute, freezing the browser.Before Firefox froze, I went into it's page info, then clicked on the Media tab and found the embedded station file. It's .asx, so in a perfect world, Flip4Mac should play it. But the file wouldn't save to my computer and in this case, the URL is truncated. This is the file: /asx/estrangeiro/rcp96.asx I save as many stations this way as allow users to do so, so I need only click on the file, rather than having to go to the web page. But more and more stations won't allow this. However, if a file will save, opening it with TextEdit may reveal two or more URL addresses within. The first is to a recording that hands off to the second, live-broadcast URL. In your case, when the recording starts again, maybe the first URL doesn't quit properly, or perhaps some other programming problem hands the live-broadcast URL back to the first. But with these types of files — if they can be saved — deleting with TextEdit the first URL to the recording eliminates it. The easiest files to see how this works are RealPlayer's on the BBC site that allows free-standing files. Some of them behave this way — maybe BBC 2's. If you download one that plays a recording first, and open it with TextEdit, you could better understand the mechanics of the things (some .asx files behave the same way). [/QUOTE]
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