how do you convert rm files into mp3s?

[LyRiCaL_G]

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

[mauzip]

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

[elneckio]

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  

[mauzip]

Thanks man! I'll try it out!

[Trauma-san]

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~

[Lil Jay]

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

[P Nelson]

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

*Bumps.. Kurupt - My *

[mauzip]

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  

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...

[elneckio]

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.