[mac4theblind] Re: Extremely minor and I do mean minor, annoyance with streaming Audio
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:57:55 -0700
Just copy and paste the link in to your favorite streaming player. works all
the time here.
Take care all.
On Mar 12, 2012, at 4:31 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
> try vo-shift-m. if you say sometimes, I wonder what the difference is?
> It may be a javascript thing in which case, it is possible the the context
> menu won't even have the play choice in it.
>
> On Mar 12, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Christohper-Mark Gilland wrote:
>
> OK, this is pretty minor, honestly, but I figured I'd at least ask, as it
> never hurts to do so, ey?
>
> Some times, I'll be on a web site either in Safari, or in Google Chrome
> Canary... usually Safari... which has a link I can hit vo+space on to play an
> internet audio stream.
>
> I'm finding that on my Windows machine, if I select the link, WinAmp will
> automatically pop up and start playing the stream, no questions asked. On
> the mac, however, I'm finding that pressing vo+space will simply throw the
> M3U, or whatever it is into my downloads. I then, have to hide my browser,
> go all? the way back to my Finder, get to the file, then hit command+O on it
> to open it. Wow! What a pain in the kneck! Obviously, I am perfectly
> aware, before anyone gripes that I can just hit vo+shift+M instead of
> vo+space on the link, then vo+down arrow to open.
>
> Perhaps that's the only other way to do it, and if so, that's perfectly fine.
> I have no objection to doing it that way, it's just that for me, I don't
> know why, but hitting vo+shift+M on a link is a bit awquard. Agfain, don't
> know why, but, it is, never the less, so there. LOL! Escentially, for one
> thing, I can't go into the finder, and reassociate the file type to open in,
> say... vlc, or say, Quicktime instead of ITunes. Well, ok, fine, I mean,
> technically speaking I can, but there are actually times I like ITunes
> openning M3U internet streams, as then in my sources list, it makes a
> playlist called internet feeds or something to that effect where all those
> streams go, so later I can just pop open ITunes without going all the way to
> the web site. On the same note however, there are more times that I honestly
> don't want the m3u's going into my ITunes library. Say, if it's a stream I'm
> probably only going to play on or two times. Yeah I know I'm lazy, I could
> just go delete it from the library, you're right, I could, again, I never
> said this was a big deal per sey, keep that in mind. I only stateed I'm
> wonderring if I can somehow make it where hitting vo+space would
> automatically open the stream.
>
> I have Safari set to not automatically open safe files after download, as I
> don't want it thinking for me. I don't always want to open a file safe or
> not after finished downloading. Maybe I'm just weird, but...
>
> Anyway, thanks for any help, should there be any further suggestions.
>
> Chris.
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