Jeff Pitblado wrote:
There's also Metaproducts' Offline Explorer, which grabs a copy of the RM file. I've used it for the trial period & it worked great.
The "trial period" can be fooled by changing your system date. I like the program, but I'm not going to pay $35 or $50 dollars for something that is (for me) a one-trick pony. Hell, I'd gladly pay Groovetech a reasonable (like $1 per hour) fee for an easily downloadable stream, but they don't seem to be heading that way. The rest of what I do is use Streambox Ripper to covert to .wav (if you don't have access to professional software, it is one of the few ways to directly convert an .ra file to anything else). Then I use Soundforge to slice it into CD-sized chunks in appropriate places (at song transitions), and to figure out if I want any particular track breaks. Then I burn it to CD (using cue sheets and CDRWin). The whole mess takes a couple of hours, from dowloading the RA file to burning 3 CDs. Chris np: David Gray - Dublin 12-22-99