The program is Streambox Ripper. I believe it's no longer available from
Streambox because of legality challenges from Real. But unsupported copies are
around the web. Alternatively, you'd play the file in RealOne, or preferably
the Real browser plugin, while using an MP3 encoding program that captures from
your sound card mixer.

And of course the reasons to do this a

1) Real's tight control over its proprietary format
2) An unwillingness to harbor on your PC Real's obnoxious, buggy, maddening and
intrusive RealOne software.
3) A desire to enjoy the content on the tens of millions of MP3 or MP3/WMA
devices out there that don't support the Real encoding, such as car CD's,
headphone units, DVD players.

Jerome


"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
...
In article , Dan Backlund wrote:
Does anyone know a program that can convert Realaudio files (.ra, .ram or
streaming) to mp3?
I would be thankful for an answer.

Why would you want to do this? It first defeats the whole purpose of
realaudio, and secondly (and more seriously) layers two lossy compression
systems on top of one another for more nasty artifacts.
--scott