Technical Question

[MisterSmith 0]

Hey,

 

Does anyone know of a way to turn a Streaming Audio Clip such as a *.ram file into an Mp3?

[Joe Giliberti 0]

don't believe it is possible, since the whole file is never actually on your computer

[LoAmi 0]

Actually, it may be possible. How to do it (and how much $$$ it will cost you to get software that can do it) is system-dependent. Search for "Saving streaming audio" in your favorite search engine.

 

Here's a hint: at some point, all audio, no matter where it came from, goes through your sound card. If you happened to have a "sound card driver" that wrote the data to a file instead of to the sound card, you could then convert it to any format you'd like.

 

I think xmms has plugins that can do this, although I'm not sure if you can play RealPlayer files from it.

[HyperDrive 0]

If your card is soundblaster (or something similar that you can set what format you are recording from; I think Windows Sound may even do this) then you can set your recording device to Wave.

 

Play the file in Realplayer (or anything EXCEPT iTunes, which blocks this from working) and you can use the .wav recorder of your choice (Sound Recorder works, but it stops running after 60 seconds) to record what is coming through your speakers.

 

This will save it as a .wav. mp3 files are compressed, so you'll have to find a wav->mp3 convertor to get what you're really wanting... but what I have above should work without a problem (though it can take time).

Edited October 31, 2005 by HyperDrive