Real Audio to mp3?

[Edward G]

Greetings Lord Ted,
Great to hear from you. Many thanks for your mail. Did you manage to watch the Ireland v France game yesterday in your island paradise?
The boys gave a great showing.
About my audio snag. The problem with the "Listen again" BBC docs is that you cannot just download the file as an MP3 etc.
You have to listen it play again in real time (like "streaming audio") and somehow harness it. I can record it to my MP3 player and edit from there.
I am now more or less sorted as I have found a stable broadband signal. Hope I can catch the ones I like before they are removed..!
Thanks again and best Regards,
Edward G.

[lordtednfs]

Originally Posted by Rob Compton Hi Lord Ted If you have done this from the BBC's "listen again", then I for one would be really grateful if you could explain how - in words of one syllable if poss! Many thanks Rob

Hi Rob,
I honestly thought that it was broadcasted in mp3 as I recently recorded 4 shows from the listen again service and have found that I have used less than 100mb, that's 1/7th of the disc space. So at that rate I should be able to get 28 shows on one disc. I use Freecorder to record the shows and recommend it very highly for the listen again service. If you have not got version 11 of windows media player you can get it at the microsoft website.

But to answer your question on how to convert to mp3 using windows media player, this is what you do:

Using a cdrw or dvdrw disc, select the file you wish to transfer. Right click on the file and a menu will appear. Look down the menu and you will see SEND TO. Bring the cursor "pointer" down to there and another menu will open and you should see a small cd disc where you have put your cdrw/dvdrw disc. CLICK that and you should see on your tool bar a message saying "You now have files waiting to be written to your disc", click on the icon at the bottom of the message.

A new page will open now and will see where your file has been transfered to. Look at the top left handside of this page and you will see the word FILE, click on that and another menu will open. Click on WRITE THESE FILES TO CD. This will open the CD Writing Wizard. Select next and then select "MAKE AN AUDIO CD" and then select NEXT. You have now started to burn your audio file to your disc.

Upon completion the disc should automatically eject itself and then you move onto the last stage.

Push the ejected back and the media player will reopen showing you that you have a disc inserted. Look on the tool bar at the top of the page and you will see RIP, select this.

The media player will open onto a new page and at the bottom of the page in the right hand corner you will see START RIP, select this. The media player will now start to transfer your file to mp3 format.

You can even transfer all your cd's to mp3 format using the media player just by following the last stage. The media player will inspect your disc and then rip it to mp3 format and then store it in your library for you. You can then select which songs you want to burn to a disc by selecting the BURN menu and then selecting the songs you want by clicking on the title and then dragging/pulling the title to the burn list on the right side of the page. Try it with cdrw/dvdrw as you can erase these if you make a mistake.

Have fun

Best wishes

Eddie

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[lordtednfs]

Hi Edward,
I was unable to watch the boys play over the weekend as it was not shown here like so so many great sporting events, they did not even show the Olympics last time it was on, hopefully with it being on in China later this year we might get a smattering of some events.

It's really nice here in my piece of Shangri-la but I miss so many sporting events and decent tv up until a few weeks ago, when a very caring member mentioned something about UkNova where you can download some great tv shows and sporting events. So now I am much happier.

Hope you get your audio and broadband problems sorted soon and Happy St Patricks Day in advance.

Best wishes

Eddie

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[Rob Compton]

Originally Posted by lordtednfs Hi Rob, I honestly thought that it was broadcasted in mp3 as I recently recorded 4 shows from the listen again service and have found that I have used less than 100mb, that's 1/7th of the disc space. So at that rate I should be able to get 28 shows on one disc. I use Freecorder to record the shows and recommend it very highly for the listen again service. If you have not got version 11 of windows media player you can get it at the microsoft website. But to answer your question on how to convert to mp3 using windows media player, this is what you do: Using a cdrw or dvdrw disc, select the file you wish to transfer. Right click on the file and a menu will appear. Look down the menu and you will see SEND TO. Bring the cursor "pointer" down to there and another menu will open and you should see a small cd disc where you have put your cdrw/dvdrw disc. CLICK that and you should see on your tool bar a message saying "You now have files waiting to be written to your disc", click on the icon at the bottom of the message. A new page will open now and will see where your file has been transfered to. Look at the top left handside of this page and you will see the word FILE, click on that and another menu will open. Click on WRITE THESE FILES TO CD. This will open the CD Writing Wizard. Select next and then select "MAKE AN AUDIO CD" and then select NEXT. You have now started to burn your audio file to your disc. Upon completion the disc should automatically eject itself and then you move onto the last stage. Push the ejected back and the media player will reopen showing you that you have a disc inserted. Look on the tool bar at the top of the page and you will see RIP, select this. The media player will open onto a new page and at the bottom of the page in the right hand corner you will see START RIP, select this. The media player will now start to transfer your file to mp3 format. You can even transfer all your cd's to mp3 format using the media player just by following the last stage. The media player will inspect your disc and then rip it to mp3 format and then store it in your library for you. You can then select which songs you want to burn to a disc by selecting the BURN menu and then selecting the songs you want by clicking on the title and then dragging/pulling the title to the burn list on the right side of the page. Try it with cdrw/dvdrw as you can erase these if you make a mistake. Have fun Best wishes Eddie __________________ Hooked off the line

Thanks My Lord!

[lordtednfs]

Buy me a pint when I next come home, hehe. Pleasure to help.

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[Lord Brett]

To resurrect an old thread, I finally got round to changing the old Real Player files to mp3 using this quick and easy software... Media Convert - free and on line - convert and split sound, ringtones, images, docs - MP3 WMV 3GP AMR FLV SWF AMV MOV WMA AVI MPG MP4 DivX MPEG4 iPOD PSP OGG WMA AAC MP4 MPC MMF QCP KAR MIDI REALAUDIO FLAC JPG PSD DOC PDF RTF TXT ODG ODP ODS ODT SXW

Takes about two minutes and couldn't be easier.