The "P" in NPR

When the radio voice says "NPR; National Public Radio" he stresses the word "Public". As if to reassure me that my donation is allowing any old underprivileged American to access their quality radio programs.

But when I try to listen on the Internet to a radio show recommended by a friend, using my free operating system of choice, I am in for half an hour of searching for a working media player. I even considered installing a product from one of my least favorite companies. The company I don't like sent me on a wild goose chase to an open source real media player that has an ubuntu package but when I tried to open this stream it gave me the error "The following components are required: protocol_rtsp_rdt". Eventually, I just gave up.

I'll resume my monetary support of NPR when they support me and my fellow linux/ubuntu users by releasing content in an open format such as ogg or mp3.

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