New RealPlayer Software Manages Media From Different Stores ...
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Harmony, which is incorporated in version 10.5 (and will also be in the next version of the RealRhapsody music service), allows the player to manage Digital Rights Management (DRM)-protected
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Megastore joins growing field of providers of digital video download services.
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RealNetworks Inc., which sells songs over the Web, said Apple Computer Inc. has altered the software for some of its market-leading iPod digital music players so that songs purchased from RealNetworks won&#39;t play.
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Steve Jobs rolls out new lineup of digital media players.
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.
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SanDisk takes on RealNetworks as a dance partner, hot on the heels of Microsoft's Zune news and the latest iPods.
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Starting with new Sansa e200 gadgets, Real is counting on consumers wanting to take a "music library" from one device to another
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CoolPlayer - Blazing fast audio player. Features: Skins, Simple user interface, Playlist editor, Internet streaming, File Renamer, Fast mp3->wav converter, Smallest executable, Continuous play (no pause between tracks), programmed in C.   CoolPlayer, http://coolplayer.sf.net/ has just released version 217.  Contains many bug fixes, and brings back the old feature of "Just add files to the playlist".  The EXE is now smaller too, bringing it under 500 Kb.
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By Nic Fildes  Blinkx, the internet video search engine, has signed a contract to provide search functionality for the new version of RealPlayer, a deal that will drive the number of searches it conducts every day well past its current four million.
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InfoWorld - SymantecÂ is warning users of the RealPlayer media software to be extra careful while surfing the Web.
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Simple tool for mass-renaming of files, download of episode lists from TV.com, TVRage or AniDB, analyzing a folder (number of files and total size for each file type), creating and checking of SFV files all in a single executable jar.   What's new in FileBot 1.6: * Episode list searches work much better now (AniDB works again) * Much better handling of lots of files when creating/check sfv files * DnD improvements * Lots of bugfixes
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KPlayer is a KDE media player based on MPlayer. With KPlayer you can easily play a wide variety of video and audio files and streams using a rich and friendly interface that follows KDE standards. The new 0.5.2 version features a brand new user manual, whats-this hints throughout the user interface including configuration dialog and file properties, improved mouse wheel support, several other improvements and bug fixes, and new Hungarian and Polish translations.   KPlayer is licensed under GPL.  KPlayer 0.5.2 is available for download at http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/#downloads  Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer-0.5.2.tar.bz2  Debian package http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kplayer/kplayer_0.5.2-1_i386.deb  Read me http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kplayer/kplayer/README?rev=HEAD  Installation http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/kplayer/kplayer/INSTALL?rev=HEAD  Micro-HOWTOs http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=71710  Enjoy!  -- kiriuja
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RealNetworks launches a beta version of its RealPlayer software that allows users to easily record and download videos to their PCs.
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A software slipup in RealNetworks' music player means that Windows, Mac and Linux computers could be compromised by a movie.
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RealNetworks  said on Thursday  the newest version of its digital music player would allow  users to save Internet video -- like those found on YouTube --  for viewing at a later time.
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(InfoWorld) - RealNetworks is hoping to make a stronger push into the portable digital music market with the introduction of Sandisk's Sansa music players that come bundled with RealNetworks Rhapsody music service. The new offering, announced on Monday and to be available only in the U.S., means that Real and Sandisk join Apple Computer and Microsoft as providers of music services that are closely tied to specific devices. Just last week Microsoft revealed details of Zune, which will link a new portable player to a Microsoft digital music store. As part of the deal, the Sansa e200 series of portable music players will come preloaded with software supporting the Rhapsody service. Subscribers to the service pay a monthly fee to listen to any song in the Rhapsody database. They can download songs to their PCs and transfer them to the digital music player. If users cancel their subscription, the next time they connect to the Internet they'll synch with Rhapsody, which will delete the songs from the music player and their PCs. Anyone can buy individual tracks from Rhapsody and those songs won't be deleted for customers who cancel their subscriptions. Rhapsody To Go customers can already transfer music onto portable players but this will be the first time that a device will come preloaded with Real software to ease the song transfer. The service on the Sansa device will also include some new capabilities, including automatic downloads of songs based on user preferences. Real is using its own Helix digital rights management rather than Microsoft's PlaysForSure offering, although the devices will support the Microsoft technology. "This shows how the marketplace is slowly adjusting to Microsoft becoming a competitor," said Mark Mulligan, an analyst with Jupiter Research. Many portable music manufacturers and digital music stores have used Microsoft's digital rights management software and the Windows Media platform but their relationships with Microsoft may be tested since the introduction of Zune. "There's going to be significant amounts of shifting of alliances because what Microsoft has done with Zune is become an aggressive competitor with lots of people who were their clients who use Windows Media," he said. The announcement from Real also indicates that although the industry has become increasingly critical of Apple's policy of tying iTunes customers exclusively to its own iPod music players, competitors are emulating the tactic. Still, just because Microsoft and Real have now introduced similar concepts doesn't mean that such close bundles will become the only choice in the future, Mulligan said. That's clear because the Real and Sandisk relationship isn't exclusive, meaning that Sansa users won't be limited to only using Rhapsody while Real said it plans to form similar relationships with other music player makers. Also, if the music stores strike too many relationships with music players makers, the value of the close tie-in drops. "You can only do that so many times before it becomes meaningless," Mulligan said. Real said the Sansa offering will become available later this year. The companies did not reveal pricing for end users.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Apple&#39;s most recent firmware update for the iPod, released last month, breaks Real Network&#39;s Harmony technology, which enable songs bought from Real&#39;s online store to be played on the device.