Has it ever occurred to anyone other than me that RealPlayer is a total piece of crap? Surely not. Everything about this product sucks. The simple fact that it takes me longer to install the stupid thing than it does to download the 10MB of glut code is offensive to me. Then you must pay careful attention not to allow it upset the careful balance between Windows Media, Quicktime, and Itunes. This space is just plain retarded. Of all these crappy products, RealPlayer is the pinnacle of shit. All the devs for these products, especially Real Networks for not allowing me something as trivial as a scaled down toolbar UI without buying their crappy product, should be drug into the street and beaten. At this point there is only one program that requires me to use RealPlayer: This American Life. Elizabeth, please start providing a different format! How is it that this company is still in business? They should be embarrassed. I did notice that, at least, now you don’t have to dig about their website for 10 minutes with a magnifier to find the ‘free’ download link.
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Aaron Fulkerson 
I just stumbled across this in my related links. Rejoice! “This American Life” has a podcast! Now if only they would launch a wiki. I emailed Elizabeth. Alas, no response.
This sums it all up:
hear hear! I whole-heartedly agree! Real player is 100% shite. Thanks for the link (though broken) to This American Life. I’m a big fan of the show but I’ve only listened via public radio. I sure would love to see a podcast feed for this program…hint, hint