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]
