.rm or RealMedia to .wav or Mp3

[tdlam]

I've saved some school lectures that come in .rm or RealMedia file. I would like to convert them to .wav or Mp3 so I listen to them on a CD. How do I do this?

[theDruid]

tdlam,

I'm pretty sure that soundforge can do this - I know it can do it the other way around (wav to rm).

However, although soundforge is widely available, it's not free

Goldwave and Cool Edit are also good audio editors - not sure if they are licenced to covert from .rm format though.

See if your school has any of the three programs above.

If not, there are some quite decent freeware audio editors at:

http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/gmm/fwaudioedit.shtml

Have a look at them and see if anything does what you want.


I've also just looked on a google search, and have seen two programs mentioned:

Total Recorder & MCi Recorder (look on google for these)

I think what they're suggesting you do is use a program which can record whatever goes through your soundcard (Soundforge can do this as well). If you just play the rm's in Real Player, you could use a recorder program to capture the audio output (so you're not really re-encoding it, you're just recording the sound Real Player outputs).

For converting a wav to an mp3 (I think you'll have to go wav format first of all from rm) have a look for BladeENC and the GUI for it - RazorBlade - it's a good freeware mp3 encoder.

hope this helps,

mcdruid