{"id":1321,"date":"2006-11-06T23:07:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2006-11-06T23:48:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T02:48:23","slug":"notably-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"Notably. Really."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e had our first snow today, a whopping 2 cms. or so. It surprised the dog too, yes.\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, while playing a couple of mp3s I discovered that today&#8217;s MP3 players generally don&#8217;t work for me. I can&#8217;t get used to Windows Media Player, for example: it&#8217;s clumsly   and bloated. Fair enough: for one of the BBC (video) reports I needed RealPlayer, hence why I decided to download it (once) again. While I find the interface a lot cleaner, I honestly think RealPlayer (<a href=\"https:\/\/player.helixcommunity.org\/\">nee Helix player<\/a>) makes a serious contender for the &#8216;Another obnoxious mediaplayer&#8217; prize, in the category of &#8216;Me Too&trade;&#8217;. For example, RealPlayer has no real random play feature<sup>1<\/sup>, however, it has an option to &#8216;sort the playlist randomly&#8217;. No really. It&#8217;s almost like that Real Situation when a teacher calls you to the blackboard and you refuse to do so because you don&#8217;t Really feel like it. Wait, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=965\">that&#8217;s for Real<\/a>. That random play feature in RealPlayer is <em>not<\/em><sup>2<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just need a command-line mediaplayer. I&#8217;m sure they exist too<sup>3<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> Writing a good randomizer is computer science.<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> &#8216;Real&#8217; puns not intended.<br \/>\n<sup>3<\/sup> OK. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opus.co.tt\/dave\/sound.htm\">Then.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our first snow today, a whopping 2 cms. or so. It surprised the dog too, yes. Earlier this week, while playing a couple of mp3s I discovered that today&#8217;s MP3 players generally don&#8217;t work for me. I can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}