Converting RealAudio10 (RAX) files to MP3 (or anything else)

[ltshaw711]

As part of the continuing Real Networks attempt to force you to buy their premium player, it would appear that there is no way to convert RAX files to MP3's without sending them $. Is there a method to convert these to other formats out there, somewhere?
Note - I even tried burning to CD but that fails (low-quality RN software). Now I remember why I uninstalled the earlier versions of Real! Arrrgh. 49 cent downloads are great - as long as you can actually use them! ;)

Thanks!
ltshaw711

[Linuxrising]

Dude I missed your post. I just posted on this.

It totally works to burn the cd.
Burn from Real Player to Cd (Your Purchased Files). Then I used Audiograbber to get the CD Format files off of the CD, and converted them into wav files.

Then used Lame to convert to MP3. I've done it with over 30 of these .rax files and it worked great. I haven't tried it with db. Audiograbber is freeware also.

http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/ YOu have to download Lame seperately and put it in the same directory though.

Good luck.

[ChristinaS]

Hmmm... I guess not all rax files are created equal. Some are encrypted and others are not probably. This may be why some can burn them to audio cd and others can't while using the same Real Player. Or does it require the premium version of Real Player too?

[Linuxrising]

I'm just using the Free Real Player X. I double checked on the files and they seem encypted but allowed to be burned to Cd.

In Real's documentation they say that you can burn regular Audio Cd's to use in your CD player with their files.

http://real.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/real.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=415&p_created=1077664997&p_sid=88zVfhjh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfc m93X2NudD03MyZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT0yJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_prod_lvl1=2&p_prod_lvl2=&tabName=tab2

I just never thought about doing that to get a more simplified file. I don't think I got some special .rax files. Double checked and they are REal Audio protected format.

[ChristinaS]

I'm just using the Free Real Player X. I double checked on the files and they seem encypted but allowed to be burned to Cd.

In Real's documentation they say that you can burn regular Audio Cd's to use in your CD player with their files.

http://real.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/real.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=415&p_created=1077664997&p_sid=88zVfhjh&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfc m93X2NudD03MyZwX3Byb2RfbHZsMT0yJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_prod_lvl1=2&p_prod_lvl2=&tabName=tab2

I just never thought about doing that to get a more simplified file. I don't think I got some special .rax files. Double checked and they are REal Audio protected format.
Ok,that's very interesting and good to know.

I wonder if it's possible some people have been trying to burn data cd's rather than audio cd's and that's why subsequent conversions didn't work.

But also this other bit from there may shed some light:


Question
How many times can I burn a Music Store clip in RealPlayer 10?

Answer
In RealPlayer 10, you can burn individual Music Store clips an unlimited amount of times.

You can burn a unique playlist (a specific group of songs that contain one or more Music Store files) a maximum of five times. If you change the playlist by adding or removing a song, it is considered a new unique playlist. The new playlist is then burnable up to five times.

[Inger]

I am having a really tough time getting the .rax files off my computer, even burning to audio CD then out to another format. I keep getting "Unsupported Media Type" and the online help answer #4217 does not have .rax format listed as a type that can be written to CD. (There are other RealAudio protected formats though...just not on the tracks I bought).

I've scoured tech support on Real and even e-mailed for some help (not holding my breath). Has anyone sucessfully gotten, say, Burn by Usher, Heanve by Los Lonley Boys, ot Whiskey Girl by Toby Keith to go to an audio CD? (No comments on my choice in music please)

The only other thing I can think of is iTunes isn't playing nice with my install of Real...
Help!?

[ChristinaS]

I am having a really tough time getting the .rax files off my computer, even burning to audio CD then out to another format. I keep getting "Unsupported Media Type" and the online help answer #4217 does not have .rax format listed as a type that can be written to CD. (There are other RealAudio protected formats though...just not on the tracks I bought).

I've scoured tech support on Real and even e-mailed for some help (not holding my breath). Has anyone sucessfully gotten, say, Burn by Usher, Heanve by Los Lonley Boys, ot Whiskey Girl by Toby Keith to go to an audio CD? (No comments on my choice in music please)

The only other thing I can think of is iTunes isn't playing nice with my install of Real...
Help!?
First of all if you see reference to .rax type when reading an audio cd that you've burnt, then you haven't burnt an audio cd at all. You must have simply burnt a data cd and you put the same old files on the cd.

Please reverify what you've really burnt. It has to be the Audio CD type not mp3 nor data type.

[Linuxrising]

Thats got to be the mistake that everyone is making C.S. Real Player burns CDs in three formats.

Audio
MP3 (only for premium Custies $$)
Data

Try it again burning your CDs in REal Player. Then Close Real, and use another piece of software to get the audio tracks off of the CD. I notice you mentioned iTunes. I hope you didn't let REalplayer install that so called Firmware on your player. I've got a Nomad Zen Xtra and I'm glad I found a way to convert them before I did the install.

Got to get some sleep. Peace

[Unregistered]

Converting protected files in RealAudio format RX4 to MP# works exactly as described here by the other poster. I really works.

1. get acopy of free audiograbber @ audiograbber.com
2. you need the lame_enc.dll to record at higher quality rates (192)

find the file by searching google for it. You'll probably get a zip file that contains many files, just extract lame_enc.dll to the same directory as the grabber. If you try to use audiograbber to convert to mp3 without lame audiograbber will suggest that you download this dll.

3. make a CD using RealAudio player of the tracks you want to unprotect
4. use audiograbber the rip the files from the CD back to your hard drive
5. the newly created mp3 files can be copied to any MP3 player without protection .

I use the Sandisk MP3 Companion so I had to do this. I paid for the tracks so I dont feel guilty about removing the protection.

[Linuxrising]

Glad that worked. AudioGrabber is a sweet little freebie. Nothng fancy but it works. I really dig DB also though for more complex jobs. LIke digital line in recording.

[Unregistered]

Here is my take on it all....

It's immoral at least and dang near illegal what REAL is up to...
No where do they tell you how unbeleivably difficult it wil be to actually hear the music you buy on anything but their crummy player...Not to mention their glitchy Media Center software and music store software which will just magically change screens and go where it wants...Mine showed for a second that I bought over a hundred tracks from wild and varied artists, then went back and showed the five songs I did buy! What a joke...
And it tries to installl upgrades on upgrades and firmware on firmware just to play on my Nomad Zen Xtra....and then oh..yeah...hangs up and does nothing!!!!! I did let it install firmware "upgrade" on my Nomad, but no biggie, since I have the "old" file which was actually 3 versions newer than their so called "upgrade"...

The word I'm thinking of is ..let's see...pirating?..Makes it look pretty good after trying to do the right thing and actually pay for music...

Yeah, I guess I could download two pieces of software, burn CD's, rip them,m convert to WAV, then convert to MPS..wow...naw..I think I'll just go to Imesh instead..!! ;-)

Chris

49 cent music

[Unregistered]

Hello,

I have been having trouble writing my RealPlayer 10 rax files to CD. I have no problem, however, writing to the exact same CDs from Windows Media Player 9. This makes me think the problem is from the rax file format. Will AudioGrabber work for me in this situation to convert the rax files to wav format? This is such a frustrating problem ... makes me wish I had not wasted my money... Anyway, I'd appreciate any help since RealPlayer seems to have taken my money and left me with no support!


Thank you!

[Unregistered]

I upgraded the RA10 player (for $49.xx) just to create .mp3's. Still, it did not create .mp3's (the FAQ says they do not do .mp3's at this time). I cancelled the upgrade; however, if you read the FAQ, it emphasized that you can create Audio CD's. OK, create the audio CD, then use any ripping package and rip to .mp3. I used Nero to rip to .mp3 and everything is fine.

[Linuxrising]

Hello,

I have been having trouble writing my RealPlayer 10 rax files to CD. I have no problem, however, writing to the exact same CDs from Windows Media Player 9. This makes me think the problem is from the rax file format. Will AudioGrabber work for me in this situation to convert the rax files to wav format? This is such a frustrating problem ... makes me wish I had not wasted my money... Anyway, I'd appreciate any help since RealPlayer seems to have taken my money and left me with no support!


Thank you!


Yes I'm almost positive it will. All you can do is try. Audiograbber is free so get a copy and grab the files off of the AUDIO CD. LIke CS said make sure you don't make a DATA cd instead. I also burned all the .rax files from REal Player to AUdio, and then closed the program(not that it made much difference". Then used Audiograbber to get the CDaudio files off of the CD to Wav. Then Encoded to MP3's. More than one person has had success with this.

Let us know if it works.

[Unregistered]

I have tried playing the real10 Audio CD's that I burned in my car's stereo which is fairly new and no luck, just get an err and cd ejects.. am I missing something...? being new to all this how do I get these songs to play on my or any car stereo?

Thanks.

DG

[Inger]

First of all if you see reference to .rax type when reading an audio cd that you've burnt, then you haven't burnt an audio cd at all. You must have simply burnt a data cd and you put the same old files on the cd.

Please reverify what you've really burnt. It has to be the Audio CD type not mp3 nor data type.

The .rax never makes it to the CD. I cannot "add selected to CD" because it is telling me invalid media type". I haven't been able to burn an audio cd with files originating as .rax. I have been able to burn from RealAudio files of type mp3 and wma to an audio cd. I can also burn .rax, .wma, and .mp3 as data files no problem. The problem is that I can't make .rax files go to an audio cd because when I try to add them to the cd because I get the error "Invalid Media Type".

[ChristinaS]

The .rax never makes it to the CD. I cannot "add selected to CD" because it is telling me invalid media type". I haven't been able to burn an audio cd with files originating as .rax. I have been able to burn from RealAudio files of type mp3 and wma to an audio cd. I can also burn .rax, .wma, and .mp3 as data files no problem. The problem is that I can't make .rax files go to an audio cd because when I try to add them to the cd because I get the error "Invalid Media Type".
Well, if you've tried all the methods given here without success, then the only thing remaining is dMC Auxiliary Input as explained in http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=5362 .

After you capture your file to a proper format (like wav or mp3 and checked it for accepatbel audio quality), then you just use whatever cd burning program you normally use and create the audio cd with it.

But make sure you burn an audio cd, not a data cd (like mp3 cd), I cannot repeat that enough times. The data cd only allows you to play your music on pc's or mp3 players, not in ordinary cd players (unless they are the new kind that allow all sorts of formats).

[Unregistered]

I just downloaded Real Player 10, bought a CD to try it, tried to burn an AUDIO CD... and have created three coasters... using different burn speeds. What is the deal?

[ChristinaS]

I just downloaded Real Player 10, bought a CD to try it, tried to burn an AUDIO CD... and have created three coasters... using different burn speeds. What is the deal?

Huhmmm.... is this the first time you do any burning of cd's?

What were you burning?

Is your issue with Real Player? dMC? the burner?

[Unregistered]

I'm still stuck. Audiograbber isn't working for me because I can't get the song files to load onto anything but RPv10. Because I think it may help you help me, here is my problem in a little more detail:

I am trying to create an audio CD that will play in my CD player at home or in car... But, I can't get the songs to write to a CD through the RealPlayer 10 Burner. After going through all the steps of burning the CD, RealPlayer says it has burned successfully, but there is nothing on the CD! I do not have this problem burning to a CD from Windows Media Player 9 at all (can do that easily), so this is why I think the trouble is from the rax file format. I was thinking that if I could convert the rax format to something like wav, the songs would actually write to the CD, as they have from WMPv9.

I really have no idea what I'm doing out of the RealPlayer or WMPv9 Burners, so I really need someone to explain all the steps to me in detail if it goes outside of those burners.
I sure do appreciate any assistance, as I have been trying to get this to work for days!!
Thank you!

[ChristinaS]

Go back about 3 posts and follow those instructions.

[Unregistered]

When I download the dMC Auxillary Input, do I want to click Open or Save to my PC? And just to be sure I get this, are these the steps I should follow:

1. download dMC Auxillary Input
2. make sure the stereo MIX or WAV sound is enabled
3. start dMC
4. start playing the music (rax) file in RPv10 and hit Stop - leave program open
5. hit the Record button on dMC
6. go back to RPv10 and hit Play
7. after song is finished playing, hit Record button again on dMC to stop recording
8. after a few seconds the wav file has been created
9. can be played and burned through WMPv9

Is this correct?

Thank you!

[ChristinaS]

When I download the dMC Auxillary Input, do I want to click Open or Save to my PC? And just to be sure I get this, are these the steps I should follow:

1. download dMC Auxillary Input
2. make sure the stereo MIX or WAV sound is enabled
3. start dMC
4. start playing the music (rax) file in RPv10 and hit Stop - leave program open
5. hit the Record button on dMC
6. go back to RPv10 and hit Play
7. after song is finished playing, hit Record button again on dMC to stop recording
8. after a few seconds the wav file has been created
9. can be played and burned through WMPv9

Is this correct?

Thank you!

Essentially yes, except don't forget to also install dMC Aux Input :)

Also, I don't know about burning through WMPv9 - I suppose it could work, though it uses Roxio (at least on my pc it does and I don't actually have that one installed). I generally use Nero or dMC CD Writer.

And then you have to make an audio cd (finalized), not a data cd. This is very important.

[Unregistered]

Okay, thank you. I downloaded the dBpowerAMP Music Converter from the link in the above post. Now, the converter says it is not installed. How do I install it? Thanks again for you continued support!

[Unregistered]

Nevermind, I got it installed. Now, though, I am having problems getting it to record when I play the rax file in RealPlayer 10. It just says Track 01 (which was there when I downloaded dbpowerAMP) 100% completed in no time at all. It doesn't record the song I am playing. I wish I could zap someone through my PC to help me with this... lol. It's so mean of the RealPlayer tech support guys to provide me with no help whatsoever. :-( Afterall, I paid them .49 cents per song! lol

[ChristinaS]

Nevermind, I got it installed. Now, though, I am having problems getting it to record when I play the rax file in RealPlayer 10. It just says Track 01 (which was there when I downloaded dbpowerAMP) 100% completed in no time at all. It doesn't record the song I am playing. I wish I could zap someone through my PC to help me with this... lol. It's so mean of the RealPlayer tech support guys to provide me with no help whatsoever. :-( Afterall, I paid them .49 cents per song! lol

1) Make sure you fix Volume control for recording to take input from stereo mix not cd or microphone.
2) Stat playing your rax file in real player. Stop it from the stop button (do not close the player) - keep that window open

3) Start dMC Aux Input

4) deal with one track per session for now - until your understand how it all works don't try to do more than one at a time

5) Click on Options:
a) figure out which folder you want the output file to go to and how you want to call it;
b) Uncheck if checked the Auto Start and Auto stop
b) Record using should reflect your sound card not other devices you may have;
c) Input source gives you another chance to adjust your Volume control as I said above - so use Stereo mix or whatever it's called (could be wave mix for instance);
d) keep the Quality at 44.1KHz (CD quality);
e) hit OK.

6) Then hit the little arrow on the Record button - select Record to - then check the type of out put file you want to make - I recommend wav

7) Again hit the little arrow on the Record button - select Compression settings - keep those at 16bit 44100hz 2 stereo(CD) - do not check the other thing below it that says Compressed

8) Again hit the little arrow on the Record button - select Record with options - This will display a summary of what you are recording to(wave), where the output goes, etc. Make sure that delete source file after compression is NOT checked. Unless something else doesn't look right, don't change anything else - Hit cancel

9) Now this is where you start recording:
a) Hit Record once
It will show you a little window with a VU meter and a red dot in the middle -
b) Start playing the song in Real player
c) click the red dot on the record window once - the VU meter starts moving as it is recording - you will see this all the while the song is playing and a count of time lapsed
d) when the song finishes playing, hit that red dot on the record VU meter once again to stop recording
e) you will get a progress window with a green tab and it will say it's completed - hit Finished
f) You're done.

Now, using Windows Explorer, go back to the folder where you were supposed to have put the output wav file - if you don't see it, you've done something wrong! - the size should be rather big - about 10MB for each minute of audio. Of course the file extension should be wav (if you cannot see file extensions, check out this thread in FAQ: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=5361 )

Double click on this file - this should start it being played in whatever default player you have. if it sounds good, you're in business. If it's crackly you didn't set up your Volume control properly for recording (i.e. you probably enabled the wrong type of input like microphone or auxiliary or line-in)

If not ok, delete this file and you'll have to start from the beginning.

If ok, this is a file you can make an audio cd with.


Later on when you are more comfortable with all this, you can start using Auto Start and End - but until then, I gave you here the unautomated procedure which allows more control.


You really should register in the forum so you can use features such as private messaging and proper searching of the forum by topics.

[Unregistered]

I have burned many CD's... WMP works awesome! I am using the same CD's.. I have Itunes, Real, AND WMP installed. Cause they all have their own format. I like WMP the best and I have all my cd collection in WMA. What i had hoped to do was burn the Real to a cd and then convert it to my WMA collection. But I can't get the Music Cd Burnt

[cs81]

Thanks so much, Christina! I have registered and will now attempt to follow your instructions, lol. :D
I'll be sure to post again if I have anymore problems and will let you know if it works for me!

[ChristinaS]

I have tried playing the real10 Audio CD's that I burned in my car's stereo which is fairly new and no luck, just get an err and cd ejects.. am I missing something...? being new to all this how do I get these songs to play on my or any car stereo?

Thanks.

DG
A few possibilities:

1) you did not create an actual audio cd, but rather a data cd containing real media files. Only an audio cd can be played in standard cd player.

2) you did create an audio cd but it was not closed or finalized in the process. Real Player appears to close the cd though. Nero has to be told to do it.

3) your burner is not working well.

4) the actual cd is defective.

[cs81]

Okay, I have successfully made wav files from the rax files! (Thank you so much, Christina!...you're a genius! ;) ) My only complaint now is that the songs seem to have little crackles or quick pops in the background at different parts throughout the songs. I have double checked the Volume Control for recording to be sure the only enabled type is Stereo Mix. I also have all volume levels on playback (Volume Control and Wave) set to match the enabled Stereo Mix for recording. What could be causing these crackles/pops? Can I clean up the wav files with a program that repairs quality?

Thanks again,
C

[ChristinaS]

Okay, I have successfully made wav files from the rax files! (Thank you so much, Christina!...you're a genius! ;) ) My only complaint now is that the songs seem to have little crackles or quick pops in the background at different parts throughout the songs. I have double checked the Volume Control for recording to be sure the only enabled type is Stereo Mix. I also have all volume levels on playback (Volume Control and Wave) set to match the enabled Stereo Mix for recording. What could be causing these crackles/pops? Can I clean up the wav files with a program that repairs quality?

Thanks again,
C
I guess I forgot to mention a little thing: check the UV meter during recording! It does tend to go too high (red) if you keep the input level too high.

In Volume control - recording - for Stereo mix - have the volume slide bar only around 3/4 way up.

On the UV meter itself you should not see the level going into the red zone and staying there, so keep adjusting the recording volume until that disappears. If you try running just Test the recording levels (small button on dMC Aux Input main window) you can see that and move the slider to the optimal level indicated.

Unfortunately, at least in the beginning, this is a lot of trial and error .

Add to this that you have to either keep changing the output file name or delete it between take contend with always confirming its overwriting - it can be a bit lengthy.

The good news is that generally, once you've set all this up properly, the next time you're probably going to have to do a lot lesss adjustments.

[Unregistered]

I'd like to convert my newly downloaded (what a mistake!) RAX files to mp3 or .wav so I can transfer them to another computer. But I can't burn CDs on my computer so is there another way to do the converting?
Thanks

[ChristinaS]

I'd like to convert my newly downloaded (what a mistake!) RAX files to mp3 or .wav so I can transfer them to another computer. But I can't burn CDs on my computer so is there another way to do the converting?
Thanks
Just go through the thread and see the discussions concerning dMC Auxiliary Input.

[chiggins]

But has anyone had the problem where you COULD burn cd's from your purchased .rax files before but NOW RealPlayer 10 is staying it can't because of "Insufficient Rights"?

This is occurring on both files that I was able to burn for the past 2 weeks as well as files just purchased this morning.

Anyone seen this or have any advice?

Thanks.

[ChristinaS]

But has anyone had the problem where you COULD burn cd's from your purchased .rax files before but NOW RealPlayer 10 is staying it can't because of "Insufficient Rights"?

This is occurring on both files that I was able to burn for the past 2 weeks as well as files just purchased this morning.

Anyone seen this or have any advice?

Thanks.
Did you move those files to a new computer? it looks like you may have lost your licenses.

But also I've seen reference to the effect that you may make a limited number of copies of a purchased file after which your license expires.

That wouldn't explain the problem with the "just purchased" files, unless again you moved them to another computer.

[Unregistered]

Hey Christina,

Thanks for the quick reply.

No, these have all been on the same computer. I haven't moved them. And I knew about burning the same playlist only a limited number of times (5, I think), but I've only burned these older songs once, maybe twice, and of course, I've yet to burn the new ones.

It feels like a bug. I'm tempted to reinstall. Waiting to hear back from "Support"...

[ChristinaS]

Hey Christina,

Thanks for the quick reply.

No, these have all been on the same computer. I haven't moved them. And I knew about burning the same playlist only a limited number of times (5, I think), but I've only burned these older songs once, maybe twice, and of course, I've yet to burn the new ones.

It feels like a bug. I'm tempted to reinstall. Waiting to hear back from "Support"...
Support from Real Networks? Good luck! I suppose miracles do happen though :smile2:

[weasbri]

A bit late to this thread, I realize, but I found it by Googling the error message ("Unsupported media type") I was getting in RealPlayer when trying to burn songs I purchased from their store to an audio CD, like the original poster. Amazingly enough, Real's tech support got back to me (two weeks late, and after condescendingly suggesting the same thing I could have read off their help pages), and their solution worked. So here it is...

Uninstall Realplayer by searching your hard drive for a file "r1pclean" (I think it's .r1pclean.exe, to be exact). Run this file to uninstall (I think it ends up uninstalling a lot more than a standard uninstall from Control Panel would).

When this is done, delete the folders c:\Program Files\Real and c:\Program Files\Common Files\Real (this second one is another key point left out of their help pages).

Go back to www.real.com and log in to Manage Your Account, and click the link to re-download RealPlayer. Reinstall it. Run RealPlayer, and (making sure that your settings are set to warn you before buying music tracks) go through the motions of buying a track from the Music Store. This will cause the Helix DRM to be redownloaded.

That should be all you have to do. Go back and find your Purchased music, and try to burn to a CD. Oh, I did have to start playing one of the tracks for it to realize that my computer was authorized again. Not sure why. But now, now errors, just Ready to Burn.

Hope this helps anyone with this problem who finds this thread like I did. It's much better than trying to use the dMC Auxiliary Input program (which is great, but not really a solution to the original problem, IMHO).

[muzicman21]

I just got a response back from Real's support yesterday regarding the same thing. The instructions worked as for getting rid of the "Unsupported Media Type" message. But, now when I actually try to burn the CD, it burns the first song successfully, then errors on the 2nd. I've changed the order of songs around to see if it had something to do with the specific file, but it doesn't matter. It always errors on the 2nd song. This even happens when I have it in "Test Mode". So, that tells me that it's not something with my CD burner itself. Any suggestions?

[ryan]

I am having the same problem as the post be4!!!!!!! I am so mad, i've wasted like 5 cd-r's!!!!!! Help me fix it, I actually paid for these songs!

[zaphirer]

When I first got some songs of Real, I couldn't figure out how to get the .rax files to play in my Muvo TX FM. However, with the use of Real's new Harmony drivers, I downloaded a "codec" that automatically converts the files to a readable format when you transfer using Real 10 (in my case, .wmv's). USE REAL HARMONY TO CONVERT TO A READABLE FORMAT FOR YOUR MP3 PLAYER!!!

[LtData]

zaphirer: I think we get the point now. Please stop spamming that into multiple posts.

[Unregistered]

Besides doing the dMC method, anyone have any idea how to burn a song that is less than 10 seconds long in RAX format to WAV? It is something that is part of an album I bought, but I can't put it on CD because it isn't 10 seconds long. Trying to figure out why this BS is in place.

[xoas]

Besides doing the dMC method, anyone have any idea how to burn a song that is less than 10 seconds long in RAX format to WAV?

Are you wanting to burn the track to save it on cd or are you considering burning to disc to re-rip to another format? What cd burner are you using?

[Unregistered]

Are you wanting to burn the track to save it on cd or are you considering burning to disc to re-rip to another format? What cd burner are you using?

I'm looking to Re-Rip in MP3 form to put into iTunes to upload to my iPod (album wasn't avail at iTunes Store and I don't trust Real's software). The burner I am using is Memorex DVDUR/RW 8412AJ. I would have no problem with this if I could use my own software, but Real's software won't allow it.

[xoas]

Do I understand correctly, you have downloaded an album full of tracks in .rax format. One particular track is 10 seconds long. The other tracks you are able to burn to cd to re-rip so you can transfer it to iTunes and your iPod. The burner software you use for this is from Real and it will not burn your 10 secind long track.

I am not sure if your burner software is able to burn your downloaded tracks as a single track. If you could do this, you could burn the album as a single track, rerip to wav and then split the tracks (say with mp3 splitter) and put them into iTunes.

Or assuming you can play your track you can record your 10 second track off of your soundcard using dMC Auxilary Input.

Also, you might try some of the other tips in this thread.

Good luck and best wishes,
Bill Mikkelsen