Real Player To MP3

[Paul Monk]

Hi

Does anyone know of a good free program to convert real player files into MP3 files?

Cheers

[Matthew T]

What file extension are Real Player files?

iTunes converts most music files to MP3, and it's free.

[Paul Monk]

.rm .ram that sort of thing.
I actually want to play some real player files on my ipod so many I'll check out the features of itunes.

[Rob McCow]

You could try Audacity, there's a link to it on the freeware section of The Vervoid site

[Si Hunt]

You can't, because .rm and .ram are just shortcut files - they allow you to play the audio from on-line, but the song (or whatever) isn't contained in the file itself. If you look, the file will be very small.

What you can do, however, is to plug a phono-to-phono lead into your speaker socket, with the other end going into your microphone socket, and use Sound Recorder to record the song as it plays.

Si.

[SiHart]

What you can do, however, is to plug a phono-to-phono lead into your speaker socket, with the other end going into your microphone socket, and use Sound Recorder to record the song as it plays.

Which is what Audacity does without all the faffing around with sockets!

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

Does it?!

Si.

[Matthew T]

Yes, does it?! Because I tried to use it to record some music playing online to MP3 the other night and could NOT work out how to do it.

[Si Hunt]

I find it hard to believe it could rip stuff being played through the PC output, otherwise it would be very easy just to rip anything on Myspace, for example. Please explain how to do it Si, I'll be eternally grateful if it works!

Si.

[SiHart]

Get Steve to explain it! I've only looked over his shoulder, but I believe the basic principle is that audicity can record whatever sound is coming through your pc, in whatever format and create an mp3 out of it. We've copied some stuff off a CD single for example just by recording the sound output with this program.

But I might have the wrong program entirely, of course. I'm not very techy.

Steve will explain it better I'm sure.

Si xx

[Paul Monk]

I've found a little program on the net which does what I want it to. And its free. I have no idea if it works but will give it a try later today.
I did have a program before but its trial period ran out.

[Si Hunt]

Let us know what the program is called if it works!

Si.

[MacNimon]

Try AudioMaestro...it can record any sound played on a computer as any of a variety of file formats. I had this as a trial version a few years ago, it was a pretty good programme and was easy enough to use. The trial version lasted for a month, iirc...it just stopped working after that. I don't know if it's still available, though.

[Lissa]

I use Jodix to convert WMVs to MP4s and they also do a RM to MP3 converter which you can get here.

[Paul Monk]

I found a little program called Super which works pretty well. I'll give your recommendationa a go as well though, Lissa and use the one I like best.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

[Pip Madeley]

Super is super, it was the program I used to put videos on my phone.

[Paul Monk]

Its pretty comprehensive for a free program.