Monday, April 7, 2008

Audio Converter Without the $$$

Years ago I downloaded a couple of radio dramas...yes, in the days of TV, DVDs and the internet, I still find pleasure in stories told on the radio. I can't say how popular it is now, but I think it was a rather big thing in Asia in the 90's. Anyhow, I still listen to them once in awhile, especially on long drives back home, but one of them was in .ram format. Ah, RealPlayer...I don't see too many now, but if you like to download random international things, I'm sure you've come across a number of these files. Unfortunately, these don't convert in itunes nor are they compatible with other portable players, so I went in search for a converter online.

After much work searching and coming across TONS of gross download sites and shareware trial versions, I finally found something that worked. The program is called SUPER. Instructions on how to use it can be found here for those of you who are technically challenged. =)

If you try to download the app by following the links on that site, you'll find yourself going in circles and misled by conveniently placed ads. After clicking through three pages of bait, you finally get to the download page. I'll save you the trouble and link you there now. If you scroll all the way down, you'll eventually get to a very inconspicuous link that looks like:

Looks shady, but it works...I can now enjoy the dramas from my ipod and there were no nasty side effects that I know of...I hope...

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2 Comments:

Blogger nelson said...

http://www.zamzar.com/

April 8, 2008 7:46 AM  
Blogger BIL said...

Here's another tool that you can have on your laptop:

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

no hurdles to jump through and it's freeware.

April 8, 2008 11:18 AM  

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