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I Would Really Like To Play The Samples On Amazon

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Bali Cockfight

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but I don't know how

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I click on them, but my quicktime or itunes don't play the windows media files they have for the samples. Help.
 
That's odd, I have the latest Flip4Mac and the Amazon Windows Media links work fine for me. Do you have the most up to date version?
 
tag said:
What happens when you click on the links? Does Quicktime give an error? Does Quicktime even open up?
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I get a pop-up window with an embedded QT player, but when I click on play, it hangs at "loading" and never plays anything.
 
mkrishnan said:
I get a pop-up window with an embedded QT player, but when I click on play, it hangs at "loading" and never plays anything.
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Ah ok, what browser are you using? I'm using Netscape, and when I click on the Amazon link, a small blank window pops up, then Quicktime opens (in it's own application window) and starts playing the song.

I tried it in Safari, a popup window opens up, then Quicktime launches and doesn't play anything. I'm thinking maybe it's a no go with Safari?
 
tag said:
I tried it in Safari, a popup window opens up, then Quicktime launches and doesn't play anything. I'm thinking maybe it's a no go with Safari?
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Sounds likely...that is indeed what I'm using....
 
khisayruou said:
Use 'safari enhancer' and change how safari identifies itself to websites as 'internet explorer6 (windows)'.
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Thanks! 🙂 This worked for me, for what it's worth. Odd ... this isn't the sort of place where browser ID would usually make a difference. Also oddly, when the user ID is masked as MSIE6, I don't get a pop-up window at all. Rather, the clip loads over the main Amazon page (the whole page gets replace by a quicktime plugin, from which I can back-arrow back to the referring page). That's different from how it (fails to) work on Safari and how it (successfully) works on Netscape, from the above post. 😱

Not sure I'm going to bother masking my user agent every time I go to Amazon.... But it worked. Amazon is good for buying stuff that's not in iTMS... especially with the plentiful availability of used CDs there. 🙂
 
I have Quicktime 7.0.4, Windows Media Player 9.0.0, and RealPlayer 10. I use Safari 1.3.2 and I have never had any problems listening to the samples.
 
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