Music Man can convert our MP3 file to a Windows Media one, but it can’t convert protected files.
I create a weekly audio podcast, using GarageBand, Audacity, and iTunes. I can do every step on my old PowerBook G4, except for converting the MP3s into Windows Media (WMA) and Real Media (RA or RM) files for those die-hard listeners who insist on clinging to those formats. My webmaster has to do those conversions on his PC. I was hoping EasyWMA would let me do this on my Mac, but it can only convert WMA to MP3, not the opposite. Any help?
We had absolutely no luck finding an application for Mac OS X to convert MP3s to Real files. (If we missed one, we hope someone writes in to let us know!) You might be out of luck there—Real Media being a proprietary format and all.
We can’t help being tickled by the vagueness of the progress dialog.
But we did manage to dig up an app for converting MP3 files into Windows Media (which surprised us, since that’s a proprietary format too). Music Man ($24.95 download, $34.95 on CD, www.mireth.com) can rip CDs, play music files, and burn discs, and it also converts audio files to WMA, AAC, WAV, MP3, or Ogg Vorbis formats. Check out the free trial to see if it suits you. (That said, we’d probably just ditch Real Media—and likely Windows Media too—if we were you. With apologies to your die-hard clingy listeners, versatile MP3s should be more than enough.)
Hitcliff
March 15, 2010 at 12:33am
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reddog92396
October 15, 2009 at 5:10pm
You can easily convert files online at media-convert.com. It has many formats and can auto detect the input format if you don't already know it.
BeaMeUp
March 18, 2009 at 4:33pm
Only if its a website stream.
One thing I do use Real Player for is to easily download YouTube videos. And not too long ago I had an mpeg that wouldn't play with Quicktime for some reason, but Real Player opened it fine. So it has a use every now and then. No harm keeping a copy in my App folder AFAIC. I keep VLC handy too,
Good luck on the conversion. I don't know of any program off hand that will do that, but I'm sure there's one somewhere.
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