[lug] Converting RealAudio to MP3

[Ben Luey]

Mplayer does a great job of this. Anything mplayer can play (dvd, real
audio, some windows media player, etc), mplayer can save and convert. The
syntax is:

for a real audio file:
mplayer -ao pcm -aofile WasRealAudio.wav -vc dummy -vo null FILE

and for a real audio stream
mplayer -ao pcm -aofile WasRealAudio.wav -vc dummy -vo null -dumpstream URL

This saves it as a wave file. Once it is a wav file, you can convert it to
an mp3 with lame, bladeenc, or a host of other programs. Maybe there is a
clever way to do the .rm -> mp3 in one command line, but this works fine.
I'm away from my home computer, so you might need to read the mplayer man
page to get the exact syntax in case I'm misremembering it.

Enjoy,

Ben



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Ben Luey
lueyb at jilau1.colorado.edu