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  • ChristinaS
    dBpoweramp Guru

    • Apr 2004
    • 4097

    Real AUdio files - No Convert to in Windows Explorer

    This is something I just noticed now, don't know if it has always been so.

    For any Real AUdio files (.ra) that I may have, hovering over their file names in Windows Explorer does not offer the dMC Convert To option that I have for other audio file types fro which I have codecs. I can only convert them if I start dMC on its own and use the dMC browser to find my Real Audio files.

    Is this maybe due to a setting that I can control and maybe I haven't done properly, is it an oversight in the making of dMC or is it just something that purposely gets left out from the Windows Shell Integration for this file type?

    I have:

    1) dMC R11 (Reelase Candidate 1)

    2) Installed Compression Codecs (Write):
    - Real Audio Release 3 (.rm)

    3) Installed Input Codecs (Read):
    - Real Audio Input Decoder (.ra, .rm, .ram)

    4) Real Player v 10.5 (free version) - no special plugins (just reinstalled it since it myseriously vanished during a cleanup )

    5) Windows 2K Pro as up-to-date as M$ has deemed necessary to support.

    Any ideas anybody? Thanks.
  • ChristinaS
    dBpoweramp Guru

    • Apr 2004
    • 4097

    #2
    Re: Real AUdio files - No Convert to in Windows Explorer

    Update:

    The Convert To is present for .rm files but not for .ra files.

    Is this an oversight?

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    • Spoon
      Administrator
      • Apr 2002
      • 44509

      #3
      Re: Real AUdio files - No Convert to in Windows Explorer

      Should be there, dMC Configuration doesn't put it back (after a reboot)?
      Spoon
      www.dbpoweramp.com

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      • ChristinaS
        dBpoweramp Guru

        • Apr 2004
        • 4097

        #4
        Re: Real AUdio files - No Convert to in Windows Explorer

        Originally posted by Spoon
        Should be there, dMC Configuration doesn't put it back (after a reboot)?
        Actually, it is there now and it wasn't there at the time I'd posted this.
        Damned if I know why it wasn't there before :confused:

        I had to reinstall Real Player a couple of days ago because I discovered that msyteriosuly it had sort of disappeared. Well, maybe because I'd done some cleanup and deleted some required program (an auto updater of sorts comes to mind). I probably didn't check on the real media right-click convert at that time. It must be that after I reinstalled Real Player I didn't reboot so it didn't reset that feature. That's probably when I checked on the right-click situation.

        Sorry about this, Spoon. I thought I'd been checking things properly but obviously not. :o

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