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Joe Rogaine

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Re: listening to RealPlayer archives
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2014, 12:12:51 AM »
The reason it only does 20 minutes is because the file doesn't contain the entire show. There's a playlist embedded; when you listen Real Player is fetching segments of varying length from elsewhere on the internet and playing them in the order determined by the playlist. The converter is not able to read the playlist info and therefore unable to fetch and convert the audio not contained in the main file.


So even if i had Real Player and everything worked correctly it would still only play the first 20 minutes?

You should be able to listen to an entire episode with RealPlayer. If you're trying to convert the .ram files to mp3 that's where you're going to run into the issue of only having twenty or so minutes of the episode.


I really don't want to download Real Player.

BadGuyZero

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Re: listening to RealPlayer archives
« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2014, 02:54:30 AM »

I really don't want to download Real Player.

I don't blame you. That program is a mess. VLC Player will play .ram files. I don't recall if you have to install a plug-in.

Josh

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Re: listening to RealPlayer archives
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2014, 11:05:53 AM »
IF YOU ARE ON WINDOWS YOU CAN TRY REAL ALTERNATIVE http://www.free-codecs.com/download/real_alternative.htm

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Joe Rogaine

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Re: listening to RealPlayer archives
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2014, 10:59:45 PM »
Thanks you guys i might check those out.

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Re: listening to RealPlayer archives
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2014, 06:07:44 PM »
IF YOU ARE ON WINDOWS YOU CAN TRY REAL ALTERNATIVE http://www.free-codecs.com/download/real_alternative.htm

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This worked, tried VLC but it played it really chopped up and sounded doubly, i didn't  do a plug in so that might have been the problem, plus you couldn't navigate with out it messing up. I dont think its a real ram file, i think its some kind of streaming ram file.