# Media Player help please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-player-help-please/132820>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 18, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-player-help-please/132820 "2002-10-18T14:05:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-player-help-please/132820/1 "2002-10-18T14:05:39Z")

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I’ve been trying to download some music off of a website and I’m having trouble.

First I tried to listen to it using Realplayer, what I got was buffering, a little music, and more buffering. It got very annoying. So I killed off Realplayer and tried to use Windows media player, but Realplayer kept poping up anyway.

Next, I compleatly uninstalled Realplayer, and updated Windows media player. I downloaded the music, but I’m only getting parts of the song, it stops halfway. I don’t know why.

I tried to download Quicktime. First it told me it was downloaded successfully. I tried to play the music using that. All I kept getting was _Untitled_, but nothing would play. So I uninstalled that, thinking I did something wrong. When I tried to reinstall it it tells me that it’s not installed properly. I’ve done it a number of times and keep getting the same message. And I can’t get rid of the little **Q** on my taskbar. I thought it was taken care of , but when I restart the computer, it keeps showing up.

Please, tell me what I’m doing wrong, and how to fix it. Talk to me like I’m a three year old, I don’t know anything about my computer.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2002, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/media-player-help-please/132820/2 "2002-10-18T15:32:54Z")

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I think you might be trying to listen to a bad link or stream, sweetie. Post the link (if it’s legal) and perhaps someone will give you a confirmation of that WAG.