Honestly, this page is just kept around on a lark. I hadn’t used RealPlayer in years. Then I decided to update this Setup Manual, and discovered …
Yeah, in 2021, it still worked.
If You Have It Installed
Congratulations. You’re a trooper.
Custom Link
Click this RealMedia Listen link. It outputs a specific playlist format that RealPlayer prefers.
The Hard Way
From the File Menu, choose Open….
Power-users can press [Ctrl-O] (⌃O).
You’ll get a pop-up dialog. Then right-click on and copy the following Listen link:
http://sleepbot.com/ambience/cgi/listen.rm
Paste it into the input field, and click OK. The stream will play.
Installation
It’s available for Windows only.
- Download the Installer.
- Accept their Terms of Service, etc. – in an Installer?
- Decline to install WinZip – what the hell?
- Start the Application
- Skip the Tour, tell it “no” for everything else, etc.
- Click the RealMedia Listen link
And for me, it just worked.
The following is Archival Content
For a while there, Real Networks was doing a good job keeping afloat with their Rhapsody service, and their player was good. It would play the S E B stream just fine, though there had been issues in the past.
And then … they just kind of fell off the map. I have no idea what their platform play would be at this point. Yet clearly, they maintain a “modern” RealPlayer binary.