Making Music with FOSS <OT>

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On 04/24/2011 05:05 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 13:18 -0700, Seattle Chaz wrote:
>    
>> Last week, opensource.com hosted a web-cast, Making Music with FOSS.
>> I missed it, but I was confident that the media would be archived,
>> which is indeed the case.  However, the media file is in the
>> proprietary .arf format from WebEx.  Though I searched extensively, I
>> was unable to locate a method for converting the file to a more usable
>> form.
>>
>> Of course, I COULD just view the materials on-line, but where's the
>> fun in that?  The download-able media player supports only Windows and
>> Mac.  I was about to hold my nose and install the player when I was
>> inspired to attempt a Wine installation.  I downloaded the WebEx .arf
>> Player, set the executable permission on the .msi file and booted it
>> under Wine.  Wine happily took it and installed it and the downloaded
>> media played without a hiccup.
>
Did you report this @ opensource.com?

(see also 
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/04/making-music-with-free-and-open-source-software-top-picks-from-red-hat-dave-phillips/ 
)

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