While playing around, I "seem" to have accidently disassociated a file
type, which — to now does not appear to cause a problem. Please let me
explain. I like to listen to radio webcasts, and have a habit so disliking
the typical ads displayed in the accompanying html, that I "dig down" into
that html and pull the raw RP (real player) or WMP (Windows Media Player)
link, and use IT to obtain the webcast. For instance, I like KOGO (
http://www.kogo.com ). If one goes there, and clicks on their webcast,
they’ll end up with a resized IE box with little ads, that plays the
webcast thru the WMP plug in. To ontain a direct link for play without ads
thru the WMP "application", I only needed to fetch a copy of the ".asx"
file from the IE TIF folder, and double clicking it from my desktop gets
me the webcast.
The same can be done for webcasts that use RP. But let’s jump forward to
another radio station that uses the WMP plug-ins where this becomes "ever
so slightly" more difficult. For KPBS FM ( http://www.kpbs.com ),
the ".asx" file is not downloaded at play-time, rather, a ".pl" file is
created in TIF that if edited with NOTEPAD, a "remote" link to the ".asx"
can be found, and wa-la, if you make an HTML link to IT, you can grab the
webcast without having to maintain an IE page.
There is a third WMP scenario, which also gets me a webcast, but this time
a ".NSC" file is downloaded to suppliment the ".asx" file. This is the
case when obtaining a webcast from KSDO ( http://www.ksdo.com ), I fear I
disassociated the ".NSC" file type when playing around trying to figure
out the scheme.
How you can help me: Clean out your IE TIF folder, go to ksdo.com, and
click the listen live link. You will be transported to a yahoo page, where
you must click a final button to hear the webcast thru the WMP
application. Allow the connection to establish, then shutdown WMP — and
close all IE windows. Open the TIF folder, and you will see (amoung
others), a ".asx" file, and a .NSC" file. Make a copy of the .NSC file on
you desktop. Notice that it has an icon. Mine DID but no longer does! I’ve
apparently disassociated it with some something, but I do not know what.
That is where YOU come in. What? What was the association?
Thanx in advance, more thanx than a wiggly puppy who wants to pee on your
lap.
thotstorm
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