From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V6 #120 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Saturday, July 21 2001 Volume 06 : Number 120 Today's Subjects: ----------------- is there a .....? [Fairywinged@aol.com] help converting/saving music files....PLEASE! ["Armani Boy" Subject: help converting/saving music files....PLEASE! hey there ok, i've downloaded the real audio clip of "strange little girl". now, i'd like to somehow save it to my hard-drive and then be able to transfer it to wav file so that i can burn it onto cd....anyway know how i go about doing this? i've tried messing around with it, but i can't get anything to happen :( thanks for the help armaniboy _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 16:18:38 -0400 From: the other white meat Subject: Re: [tori-boot] help converting/saving music files....PLEASE! when we last left our heroes, Armani Boy exclaimed: >ok, i've downloaded the real audio clip of "strange little girl". now, i'd >like to somehow save it to my hard-drive and then be able to transfer it to >wav file so that i can burn it onto cd....anyway know how i go about doing >this? i've tried messing around with it, but i can't get anything to >happen :( i'd recommend downloading the mp3 and working with that since finding a mp3 to wav decoder is easier to find than a ra->wav decode. the decoding is done, in fact, by your mp3 player, so all you need is a player which can write the decoded audio to a file instead of sending it to your sound card. if you use winamp, go to the output plug-ins section of preferences. select the "nullsoft disk writer" plug-in. click configure and select the directory you want the wav file to be written to. then, play the mp3. instead of hearing the song, the decoded audio will be written to the directory you selected. also, many cd burning programs will do the mp3->wav conversion on the fly so you won't have to do the decoding at all. just add the mp3 to the list of files you want to burn, as if it was a wav, and see if your audio burning software can do it. woj ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V6 #120 *************************************