grr, opening things that attach to the desktop makes my active desktop refresh…
anyway, to start typing again… real sucks ass. i think everybody already knows that. in any case, i’ve started listening to online streams, and it pops up rp8, even when it’s unassociated w/ mp3 playlists/streams. (apparently a lot of people have been having this problem)
why does this happen? turns out that real went about creating their own playlist extension, called .xpl, and then went and changed the MIME types of playlists and mpegurls to their proprietary .xpl format. it also changes the extensions of mpegs, mpgs, and mp3s to “.mpega” (again, associated to rp). pretty bastardly right? if you’ve been wondering how to get rid of it, copy this into a regfile (.reg) and run (double click):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/mp3] "Extension"=".mp3" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/x-mp3] "Extension"=".mp3" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/mpeg] "Extension"=".mp3" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/x-mpeg] "Extension"=".mp3" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/mpg] "Extension"=".mp3" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/x-mpg] "Extension"=".mp3" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/scpls] "Extension"=".pls" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/x-scpls] "Extension"=".pls" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/mpegurl] "Extension"=".m3u" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTMIMEDatabaseContent Typeaudio/x-mpegurl] "Extension"=".m3u"
fuck you real networks!