Having RealAudio sice it first arrived on the net and put up with all the 'problems' of the earliest versions I now wonder whether it is worth spending any money on it.

First all the versions I tried did everything to my system including 'protect error' lockups etc.

Microsoft provide FREE to any Windows GUI owner a very good streaming audio player.

This package supports MP3 so I am going to install it on my amchine and DUMP RealAudio.

The file format for Microsoft's audio is ASF.

Last comment I do not think RealAudio's childish attempts to force me to buy their product by rigging MY registry files is very funny, especially when the instead of turning off the audio stream the entries lock up MY computer.