1KB my ASS

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

So I'm trying to send someone a song, and it keeps sending as a 1KB file. Even when I tried to send it via email it did that. And when I check the file's size, it tells me it's 59 bytes. But it plays like a normal .rm file, all 2:12 of it.

And if you want to get on me about file sharing, it's from an unreleased musical so there's no way *to* buy it.

Anyway, why would it do this? And how can I send the song for real without it messing up?

 

[Zhen Lin]

It's being streamed from the internet somewhere. In other words, the music is not actually in the file.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

That's odd. I got it from SoulSeek, and the other stuff I've gotten from there always work fine. I can even burn them onto CDs and they've never had problems.

 

[Argy]

Maybe it is a shortcut, then.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

It doesn't give any indication about that on the album lookup. It just calls the file a "RealPlayer Presentation"

 

[Murgatroyd]

This is the point where I would use HexEdit (sorry, I don't know the Windoze equivalent) to see what's really in that file. I strongly suspect that most of the file is occupied by a URL, quite likely starting with rtsp://.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

So how do I get it to actually load onto my computer? I want to send it to people because it reminds me of someone else.

 

[Zhen Lin]

There are various methods, but the easiest thing to do is to just send the file as is. It's not like you need a password to stream the file, right?

 

[Otter Mii-kun]

about RAM files

The little 59 some byte Realmedia file is really just a plain text file containting a URL (or multiple) to the actual media file to be played. If you can get that small file out of your browser cache or whatever you get it from to download, you can open it in a regular text editor and see the actual URL for the media file.

 

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

All right, due to problems that some of you know about, I had to reformat everything, and now I'm having trouble with the aforementioned file. It doesn't play any more! It just tells me that it can't render the file, whatever that means. How can I get it to 'render'?