For those of you too impatient to go through the actual setlist pages at the Audio Island site, here is a list of all RealAudio files available.The left column tells where in my Setlists section you could find the song. The middle column is for downstreaming, so click on these to have your RealAudio player begin downstreaming. The right column is for those people still having trouble.
The RealAudio files can be downloaded in their entirety from the right column by left-clicking or by right-clicking and choosing Save Link or File As...
| Year | To downstream and hear | To download and save |
| 2000 | I Stole Jimmy Buffett's TV Guide (high quality) | jbstvguide.ra - 1.9 MB |
| Year | To downstream and hear | To download and save |
| 1984 | Who's the Blond Stranger video from Nashville Now | stranger.rm - 1.5 MB |
| 1984 | He Went to Paris from Nashville Now | hewent.rm - 1.5 MB |
| 1990 | In the City from The Tonight Show 11/16/90 Part One | nthecity.rm - 1.5 MB |
| 1990 | Jamaica Farewell from The Tonight Show 11/16/90 Part Two | farewell.rm - 2.3 MB |
| 1992 | Money Back Guarantee from The Tonight Show | guarantee.rm - 1.9 MB |
| 1992 | That's What Living is to Me from The Whoopi Goldberg Show | begood.rm - 1.7 MB |
| 1992 | CBS Sunday Morning | cbsnews.rm - 1.9 MB |
| 1994 | Apocalypso from Late Show with David Letterman | apocalypso.rm - 2.2 MB |
| 1994 | Entertainment This Week | etw.rm - 2.6 MB |
| Year | To downstream and hear | To download and save |
| 2000 | Highlights from Pine Knob - recorded June 8 1999 | clubtrini.rm - 5.5 MB |
The benefit of RealAudio files is not only their small size but also the ability hear the sound file live as it is transferred to your computer. This is called "downstreaming". Certain companies are rich enough to use RealAudio servers to downstream, but the method I use is much simpler.Some of the songs on the Audio Island setlist pages are linked to files with a ".ram" extension. These are nothing more than text files. If you already have a RealAudio player, your computer will recognize the ".ram" extension and activate your player. The ".ram" file is nothing more than the URL or address to the actual sound file's location.For instance, in the case of "He Went to Paris", on the 1989 setlist page, the song is linked to the ".ram" file at my AOL "MickStuff" location, but the actual sound file is contained in my "MAsteriou" location. So the ".ram" text file (at the MickStuff location) says nothing more than "http://members.aol.com/masteriou/to-paris.ra". The player recognizes that this is not a true RealAudio file, but will use the URL to look for the sound file itself, which has an ".ra" extension. In effect, I am tricking your player; and it is able to do the downstreaming itself which I am not rich enough to provide.Therefore, it is important to remember the links on my Setlist pages do not lead you to the actual RealAudio sound files. Do not save these ".ram" files to disk. All you get is a small text file, and your player will tell you it is not a valid RealAudio file.When you click on a Setlists page's link, your browser may ask whether you want to "open it" or "save it to disk". Choose "open it", and then you should see some kind of message like "Spawning external viewer". This means your RealAudio player is activating, and will soon be downstreaming the audio file.An important note: this downstreaming technique only works for version 3 or better of the RealAudio player. The current version is 5 and is available as a free download at http://www.real.com. The RealNetworks company is also introducing a new G2 player, geared more toward RealVideo but which can also handle these sound files.