IE9 Beta 64 bit or Can't M$ get anything right?

[choro]

Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No
sound. Yet I have been getting it no problem on Google Chrome! I was
hoping that IE9 would live up to the hype! But hell, NO!!!

CBC Classical is a lovely station for classical music lovers, BTW. First
came across it on iTunes. But you get more details of what is being
played and by who on connecting via the web rather than via iTunes.

 

[Bob Hatch]

Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No
sound. Yet I have been getting it no problem on Google Chrome! I was
hoping that IE9 would live up to the hype! But hell, NO!!!

CBC Classical is a lovely station for classical music lovers, BTW. First
came across it on iTunes. But you get more details of what is being
played and by who on connecting via the web rather than via iTunes.

What does Beta mean?


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[choro]

What does Beta mean?

If it is from M$, it obviously means pre-Alpha!

 

[Paul]

If it is from M$, it obviously means pre-Alpha!

What happens if you place

http://radiostreams.cbc.ca/cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u

as the URL ?

Does Windows Media Player open ?

Did you click the "play" button on Windows Media Player ?
I had to click "play" so the buffered content would start playing.

I used Firefox, and it opened WMP for me when I used that link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists.

An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations
of one or more media files that the media player should play.
Each line carries one specification. The specification can be one of:

* an absolute local pathname e.g., C:\My Music\Heavysets.mp3
* a local pathname relative to the M3U file location e.g. Heavysets.mp3
* a URL.

Inside the downloaded "cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u" is this link,
But you can't play this directly, as it seems to try to download
instead. So this won't work. If I use this, it doesn't stream,
but tries to download in Firefox.

http://out1.cbc.icy.abacast.com:80/cbc-cbcw3tor-128

but using this one, might work. I've got sound via this.

http://radiostreams.cbc.ca/cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u

I don't use IE for anything except Windows Update.

For some reason, I always have to click the "play" button in WMP,
as even when it says "buffering" for long periods of time, it
won't play until you click.

All the above, evaluated on my WinXP machine. I think the problem
may relate to how the CBC has it set up, as much as anything.

HTH,
Paul

 

[choro]

Used the first link or URL you gave in IE9 and ended up with iTunes
eventually and it was OK. But I'd rather stick with Google Chrome where
I have a shortcut already and all I have to do is to click it to get to
CBC Classical.

Incidentally when I tried the same URL with IE9 it said something like I
need Flash Player 10.1 and when clicked to get there, it merely said
Flash player 10.1 is not yet ready for64 bit IE9.

So much for M$! It is like going to a restaurant and ordering a Sunday
roast and they serve it to you with a "Sorry, but the roast potatoes are
not yet ready!"

 

[choro]

Used the first link or URL you gave in IE9 and ended up with iTunes
eventually and it was OK. But I'd rather stick with Google Chrome where
I have a shortcut already and all I have to do is to click it to get to
CBC Classical.

Incidentally when I tried the same URL with IE9 it said something like I
need Flash Player 10.1 and when clicked to get there, it merely said
Flash player 10.1 is not yet ready for 64 bit IE9.

So much for M$! It is like going to a restaurant and ordering a Sunday
roast and they serve it to you with a "Sorry, but the roast potatoes are
not yet ready!"

 

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"choro" wrote in message
Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No
sound. Yet I have been getting it no problem on Google Chrome! I was
hoping that IE9 would live up to the hype! But hell, NO!!!

CBC Classical is a lovely station for classical music lovers, BTW. First
came across it on iTunes. But you get more details of what is being
played and by who on connecting via the web rather than via iTunes.
--
choro
*****
I use windows 7 64 bit and IE 9 32 bit as it downloaded both to choose from
32/64. I use the 32 bit as I knew about the adobe flash issue. I never
thought I would budge from Chrome but have now set all defaults for IE 9, I
think it's pretty good and still only beta. Tried CBC classical and works
fine (32 bit that is)

 

[choro]

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in message
Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No
sound. Yet I have been getting it no problem on Google Chrome! I was
hoping that IE9 would live up to the hype! But hell, NO!!!

CBC Classical is a lovely station for classical music lovers, BTW. First
came across it on iTunes. But you get more details of what is being
played and by who on connecting via the web rather than via iTunes.
--
choro
*****
I use windows 7 64 bit and IE 9 32 bit as it downloaded both to choose
from 32/64. I use the 32 bit as I knew about the adobe flash issue. I
never thought I would budge from Chrome but have now set all defaults
for IE 9, I think it's pretty good and still only beta. Tried CBC
classical and works fine (32 bit that is)

Yes but unfortunately the "Flash Harry" in question can't get an
erection for 64 bit Win7. It must still be waiting for its Viagra or
Cialis.

IF and it is a big IF, IE9 is that much better than Google Chrome I'll
be very, very surprised. I use IE for M$ updates and only for M$ updates.

And I have certainly spent a lot of big bucks with them over the years.
7 Win XP's, 1 Vista and now 1 Win7, several Win95's, Win98's, the
Millennium version to say nothing of the earlier OS's plus over the
years 4 different versions of M$ Office. Naturally I get a bit
disgruntled when I download an add-on which I expect to work even if it
is still in Beta.

 

[Ed Cryer]

What happens if you place

http://radiostreams.cbc.ca/cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u

as the URL ?

Does Windows Media Player open ?

Did you click the "play" button on Windows Media Player ?
I had to click "play" so the buffered content would start playing.

I used Firefox, and it opened WMP for me when I used that link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

M3U is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists.

An M3U file is a plain text file that specifies the locations
of one or more media files that the media player should play.
Each line carries one specification. The specification can be one of:

* an absolute local pathname e.g., C:\My Music\Heavysets.mp3
* a local pathname relative to the M3U file location e.g. Heavysets.mp3
* a URL.

Inside the downloaded "cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u" is this link,
But you can't play this directly, as it seems to try to download
instead. So this won't work. If I use this, it doesn't stream,
but tries to download in Firefox.

http://out1.cbc.icy.abacast.com:80/cbc-cbcw3tor-128

but using this one, might work. I've got sound via this.

http://radiostreams.cbc.ca/cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u

I don't use IE for anything except Windows Update.

For some reason, I always have to click the "play" button in WMP,
as even when it says "buffering" for long periods of time, it
won't play until you click.

All the above, evaluated on my WinXP machine. I think the problem
may relate to how the CBC has it set up, as much as anything.

HTH,
Paul

Could it be that under XP you've got the file association set to "open"
rather than "play"?
I can't see that option under Win7; just "play", which is exactly what
my WMP-Win7 does on http://radiostreams.cbc.ca/cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u

Good station.

Ed

 

[choro]

I have a WinXP machine I built myself around 10 years ago and the mobo
and the CPU were getting a bit long in the tooth but I just loved my old
machine. It took me literally months to switch over to Win7 even after I
had built the machine and it was just sitting there begging me to adopt
it. But in the end I gave it a real try and I was gobblesmacked by the
speed as compared with the speed or lack thereof of my old venerable XP
machine. But my new machine is a real "speed devil"! I've got a posh
Giga mobo, fitted with an AMD Phenom AM3 4 core 3.4 MHz 965 chip plus 8
GB of DDR3 ram on my new machine and have just got over my "affair" with
my old love!

In the meantime Google Chrome has served me well on both machines. I
just love it. Tried Firebird, Safari and I don't know what else but I
find Google Chrome layout and response times extremely amenable. The
switchover from old Google to Google Chrome was a real milestone for me.
But still, I do like to try out new things.

Incidentally I find Win7 quite good. I hated Vista so much so that I
never used a Vista laptop I acquired. But there are certain aspects of
it I don't like such as My Documents within My documents plus yet
another My Documents within Documents and some such other stupid
duplications. No doubt they will come out with Win8 soon enough to
correct these illogical stupidities!

 

[Helroy]

"choro" wrote in message
Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No
sound. Yet I have been getting it no problem on Google Chrome! I was
hoping that IE9 would live up to the hype! But hell, NO!!!

CBC Classical is a lovely station for classical music lovers, BTW. First
came across it on iTunes. But you get more details of what is being
played and by who on connecting via the web rather than via iTunes.
--
choro
*****

Flash player for IE9 64bit available at:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html

 

[cat]

Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No
sound.

1. You must be alias in disguise because It works perfectly. I am
playing http://radiostreams.cbc.ca/cbc-cbcw3tor-128.m3u from IE9 Beta
now.
2. IE9 Beta is Beta software. Please refer to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle for detailed
information regadring software release cycles.

 

[Char Jackson]

Incidentally I find Win7 quite good. I hated Vista so much so that I
never used a Vista laptop I acquired. But there are certain aspects of
it I don't like such as My Documents within My documents plus yet
another My Documents within Documents and some such other stupid
duplications. No doubt they will come out with Win8 soon enough to
correct these illogical stupidities!

You've mentioned your duplicate folders a couple of times in recent
days or weeks. Where are you seeing that? What are the full paths to
some of your duplicate folders? Are some of them only junction points?
I'd like to try to find them on my system.

 

[choro]

You've mentioned your duplicate folders a couple of times in recent
days or weeks. Where are you seeing that? What are the full paths to
some of your duplicate folders? Are some of them only junction points?
I'd like to try to find them on my system.

Do a search for folders named Documents and you will soon see them!
Or see the tree of the partition you keep you documents in and you will
soon see...
Drive letter\Users\Your name\My Documents\My Documents\filename.ext

And what need is there to have it also under
Libraries\Documents\My Documents ?

 

[choro]

The question was why do you use IE for Windows Updates with Windows 7,
not why you are now using Windows 7 and what kind of machine you have.

I admit I did go a bit off topic, but aren't MS and Windows Updates only
available using IE?

 

[Big Steel]

If it is from M$, it obviously means pre-Alpha!

It means it is not ready for prime-time use it at your own risk.

 

[The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly]

Yes but unfortunately the "Flash Harry" in question can't get an
erection for 64 bit Win7. It must still be waiting for its Viagra or
Cialis.

So your fav pron sites all run on flash?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No sound. Yet I
have been getting it no problem on Google Chrome! I was hoping that IE9 would live
up to the hype! But hell, NO!!!

CBC Classical is a lovely station for classical music lovers, BTW. First came
across it on iTunes. But you get more details of what is being played and by who
on connecting via the web rather than via iTunes.

You do know what Beta means don't you ?? Are you by anychance a computer geek on the
high end of the scale ?

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[relic]

Just updated to IE9 64 bit Beta. Tried to access CBC Classical. No sound.
Yet I have been getting it no problem on Google Chrome! I was hoping that
IE9 would live up to the hype! But hell, NO!!!

CBC Classical is a lovely station for classical music lovers, BTW. First
came across it on iTunes. But you get more details of what is being played
and by who on connecting via the web rather than via iTunes.

Not a valid comparison: Many sites won't work correctly with a 64-bit
browser. Your Google Chrome is 32-bit.

"... the 64-bit version of Chrome is available for.

Linux.

And nothing else."

 

[wilby]

Do a search for folders named Documents and you will soon see them!
Or see the tree of the partition you keep you documents in and you will
soon see...
Drive letter\Users\Your name\My Documents\My Documents\filename.ext

And what need is there to have it also under
Libraries\Documents\My Documents ?

Okay, you have my interest now.
I run win 7/64 and am constantly bothered by the many "Documents"
folders that seem to come from nowhere. This is the biggest pain I have
concerning Win 7.

Not only will new Documents folders appear, sometimes they hijack an
existing folder. Example: Suddenly a sub folder of my "real" documents
folder, named "Excel Files" disappears and, in searching, I find it, but
it is renamed "documents". Royal PITA.

I've been blaming the Libraries feature (which is also a pita) for this
confusion but I'm not sure.

If anyone solves this, please post it.

Wilby