F^&*king Real Player
 

Personally, I hate RealPlayer. I just wanted to get that out of the way. I am running XP and when I click on my DVD-Rom drive in My Computer it always starts playing my CD with RealPlayer. I hate that. I tried to change the file association but to no avail. Is there another way to change this? Much obliged. Thanks.

Options (not a sequence. Don't do all three in a row, because this is not step-by-step instructions. These are just ways to possibly aleviate the problem you are having ):

1) Go into Real Player, options or settings, and look for something with "file associations" or "Associate with ___ files" options. De-select pretty much everything. Especially "Associate with CD's" or anything that sounds simialer to that

2) Uninstall RealPlayer. Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs, and uninstall realplayer.

3) Try to "Force" a different media player to play cd's by (first doing option 1) and then opening up the other media player and associating everything with that one. Like Windows Media Player.

and download real alternative
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...fid=1054136293

Heh, just went into RP to see what settings you'd need to change and I found that I've somehow managed to completely avoid using RP since I bought my computer 2 months ago. :)

Anyways, looks like meanSpleen took care of you in the meantime.

Nice program, thanks ninety09!

-Lasereth

Man i hate realplayer, im suprised people still use it...

I think you can use tweak UI to set program defaults

Quicktime>Windows Media Player> Real Player

I wish they would get rid of Real, and even WMV. :(

Man, I think I'm the only person left alive who still likes and uses real player regularly.

I enjoy my cartoons in real format. File size stays nice and small. Who needs a 30 minute cartoon to be 300mb anyway? I don't have that kind of hard drive space anymore. (Perhaps I should delete most of my mp3s. I don't listen to that many of them anyway.)

short answer to above question, yes

Get real alternative if you use real movies, cause real player is full of ads, spyware etc. its #2 on the all time worst programs to install, and bonzai buddy is #3

why not explore the dvd drive and then right click on the file and "open with..." what ever program u want to play the music in?

I've got a sweet little thing that plays all Real files through Winamp.

Eh.. RP is shit even under Linux. Though if you grab the RP libraries mplayer can play it's files.. I, too, am surprised RP is still in use today, because it sucks soo horridly :(