Hey, won't Soundtaxi convert .RAX to .MP3? When I was using a Windows machine a while ago it seemed to work. On Jan 24, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Blackwell, Clifford wrote:
> Hello Chris, > > Sorry that things are not going so smoothly. > > First, there is no way, that I know of, to convert directly > from .RAX to > .mp3. I recently saw a post about a program call All Music Converter > that seems to be able to "crack" the protection, but the poster said > that the results were not satisfactory in that there were gaps and > clicks. What I do is burn my .rax tracks to cd in Real Player. If I > want them downconverted to .mp3, I use Real Plaer to rip/save the > tracks. In Preferences under the Tool menu, I make sure they will > save > to .mp3 and choose the highest bit rate. I could get by with a lower > one, but I believe that I can hear the difference at 128 kbps. The > ripped files take up more space, but my ears are happy! If you can > live > with a lower bit rate, you can select that. > > As for you second question, my answer is what I do in response to your > first question. I don't know why your converter program won't read > the > tracks from the disk or from your hard drive. I guess as far as the > hard drive file, how did you get the files from the cd to the hard > drive? Copying and pasting will not give you a positive result. You > would need to rip the tracks from your cd to the file on your hard > drive. You can rip them in .wav or .mp3 or any of several other > formats. > > If Real Player doesn't come up when you put the cd into the drive, > navigate to Real Player, go to Tools and down arrow to CD. Right > arrow > and then down arrow to the Save Tracks option for the drive with the > cd > in it. Hit enter. A menu will come up to allow you to set and select > several options. I think there's an "ok" button at the end of the > selections. Depending upon how you have things set in Preferences and > in the dialogue, your disk drive will pop the drive open when > ripping is > complete or you'll hear the completion sound you have set in Windows. > > Your tracks will be ripped to a folder in My Documents. If several > different tracks it will probably be in a folder called Various or > Various Artists. The album will probably be called "compilation > album". > > If you need more help, please let me know. > > Clifford > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Hickerson > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:37 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Frustrated with Rhapsody > > Hi Clifford, > > I'm sure glad I saved your e-mails. > > I have copied a bunch of stuff from the real player store and I > grouped > it all together in a file, which I have successfully burned to cd. > Now > I have two questions. > > First of all, do I have to move them to cd before converting them from > RAX to MP3? > > Next, I'm using Alive mp3 converter and when I select the cd drive, it > gives me the name of the cd, but when I go to view the files it says > zero items and I cannot get the list of songs to add to the converter > program. I know they are on the cd because it plays. Also I > thought I > would be smart and go to the file on the computer where I had copied > them all and see if I could convert them from there, but I got the > same > result. It allowed me to go to the file on the C drive, but when I > tried to view the list of songs it gave me zero items again. > > Do you have any idea how I can get these converted to mp3? > > Thanks much. > > Kris > > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
