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Lifestyle => Tha G-Spot => Topic started by: LyRiCaL_G on December 26, 2002, 11:09:17 AM

Title: how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: LyRiCaL_G on December 26, 2002, 11:09:17 AM

how do i convert files that open on like real player that re about 1 meg into good quality mp3's??

like converting wav files into mp3 but real playa files instead

peace

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: mauzip on December 26, 2002, 11:12:12 AM

Good question. I asked that on another forum because I wanna put that St. Ides album on cd (it's all in .rm om www.westcoast2k.net), but so far nobody could answer me :-\

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: elneckio on December 26, 2002, 01:51:37 PM

Haven't tried any of these but from what I read they should work ...

This should do it but in realtime - ie slowly :
http://rawavrecorder.homestead.com/

or you could try :
http://www.remixer.com/downloads.htm  - "Use this program to convert your Real Audio files to .WAV format"

I also read that total recorder might do it :
http://www.highcriteria.com/

One of them should work  ;D

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: mauzip on December 26, 2002, 01:55:07 PM

Thanks man! I'll try it out! ;D

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: Trauma-san on December 26, 2002, 03:08:15 PM

Ugh; they're not gonna improve the quality though, you should know that.  RM files are encoded one way, and when you encode a file, you throw a lot of the information away.  All you have left to work with is what's there, so even if you make it a much higher quality mpeg that's much larger in size, it's still gonna be the same quality, it might even be worse.  Peace~

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: Lil Jay on December 28, 2002, 08:18:33 PM

the quality wont be better but  the format will change so youll b able 2 put it on cd..anyway, get streamboxripper, its easy as hell

download it 4 free from streamboxripper.cjb.net

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: P Nelson on December 28, 2002, 10:10:01 PM

Stream Box Ripper is thaa BOOOMB! I can even arrange the sound quality a bit with this toy..

*Bumps.. Kurupt - My * ;)

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: mauzip on December 28, 2002, 10:11:51 PM

Quote from: elneckio on December 26, 2002, 01:51:37 PM

Haven't tried any of these but from what I read they should work ...

This should do it but in realtime - ie slowly :
http://rawavrecorder.homestead.com/

or you could try :
http://www.remixer.com/downloads.htm  - "Use this program to convert your Real Audio files to .WAV format"

I also read that total recorder might do it :
http://www.highcriteria.com/

One of them should work  ;D

I don't know why, but only the upper one works... I can put it the songs now on a cd, but files of 255kb become 10538 kb...

Title: Re:how do you convert rm files into mp3s?
Post by: elneckio on December 29, 2002, 11:20:45 AM

Quote from: mauzip on December 28, 2002, 10:11:51 PM

I don't know why, but only the upper one works... I can put it the songs now on a cd, but files of 255kb become 10538 kb...

Thats because the original Real Audio ones are highly compressed data.  The conversion to wav makes them into un-compressed data of the same size as the data stored on a normal audio cd, not gaining any quality as said earlier.  If you want them small but not real audio then use a utility convert the wav's to mp3, note that this will loose quality a bit again as the mp3 conversion will drop some of that audio to compress it.