I have a brand new laptop Toshiba satellite with windows home edition xp. I tried to listen to my home town radio station in Canada and windows media cannot open this .rm file what shoud I do? Thank you

.RM Video file (RealAudio) You will need the "Real Audio" player to play this radio station.

Real.com

As I write this the Real Audio page is down, but when it comes back up you should be able to download it. Usually, a station that plays its music in .rm would also have a link to download the necessary audio player right on their site so you might try checking there, too.

Or try this page to download the player: Real Audio You might note that this site has alternatives to the Real Audio format (.rm). You may see something like this on your home town site. In this case, the alternative is "MP3" which the Windows Media Player (among others) can play.

I hope this helps!

Dwight

Thank you now I did this but now whenever i get now my wmv file cannot play because real player does not support them. The only way I can get them to play is if I save them in my documents then play the through media player what am I doing wrong

Open up Windows Media Player, go to "Tools", then "Options", then "File Types" and select the appropriate extensions that you want Windows Media Player to play.... in your case, the .wmv.
Good Luck.

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