Re: [ARSCLIST] RealAudio to WAV

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave:

Yeah, I hate this situation. There are many times with web audio when I want to save it but it's 
only in Real or WinMedia streaming format. What I do is just bite the bullet, stream it on one 
computer, put it through my console and do EQ on it because the audio can be made a little more 
tolerable by conservative EQ to taste, and recording onto the main DAW as a WAV file. It still won't 
sound like a real-deal WAV but it seems to work much better than "inflating/transcoding" apps I've 
tried. Soundforge will open a Real standalone file but not a stream.

There's a freeware app called RARecorder out there that will record to wav, cycling thru the 
computer's soundcard like TotalRecorder does, but again I find the quality is not as good as the 
method I described above. But I'm picky about web audio and try to get rid of as much digi-swish and 
digi-jangle as is possible. Sometimes it's not possible to save the sound because the file is such 
crappy super-crunched quality.

Hope that helps.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Rice" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] RealAudio to WAV


> Hi list,
> I have a piece of audio that unfortunately only exists in RealAudio  format which I need to 
> incorporate into a restoration which is  otherwise WAV. I saw some RealAudio to mp3 conversions 
> applications,  but does anyone have a suggestion on how to transfer RealAudio to WAV  with minimal 
> further harm to the file.
>
> David Rice
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