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Post subject: Windows Media Audio/Video Playlist
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I found a website which has almoust all the music I ever want, but the problem is that all the files are Windows Media Audio/Video Playlist. This is a weired thing because it takes up 1 kb, and plays on the computer all the time, even if I disconnect the internet. I even tried restarting the computer, and the file still worked without being connected to a site. I wanted to burn these files on my music cds (Atrac3plus), but that codec was not recognized by any of the music burning software (I tried sonic stage and RecordNow). Does anyone know if there is any way I can convert those files into MP3 or WMA or something like that? |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:53 am |
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The playlist file is probably pointing to other files that are cached on your hard drive. Try opening the 1 kb file in a text editor and see where it's pointing to. _________________ "Robots don't say 'ye'."
"I'll show ye!" |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:30 pm |
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This is all the file shows:
[Reference]
Ref1=http://a425.v8384d.c8384.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/426/8384/3b858b51/mtvrdstr.download.akamai.com/8512/wmp/3/804/7767_1_2_05.asf
Ref2=http://63.123.36.50:80/7/426/8384/3b858b51/mtvrdstr.download.akamai.com/8512/wmp/3/804/7767_1_2_05.asf
I tried entering both of those addreses, but they just automatically opened Windown Media Player |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:15 pm |
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You can try configuring up your web browser to download .asf files instead of opening them, or your can get a download manager that will save the streaming audio/video to your hard drive.
One such download manager is HiDownload. _________________ "Robots don't say 'ye'."
"I'll show ye!" |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:42 pm |
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Alright, HiDownload does work, but you must change the download mode to Windows Media Stream. Trust me, it will work. |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:00 pm |
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Post subject: Re: Windows Media Audio/Video Playlist
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Berserk_Fury wrote: |
Does anyone know if there is any way I can convert those files into MP3 or WMA or something like that? |
None that I can find.
Sony has ATRAC locked up fairly tight. _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:10 pm |
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There's no way to save output audio to .wav and then convert to whatever? _________________ This space left intentionally blank.
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:13 pm |
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Well, you could do that, but it involves more work than I'd want to go through for a measly Limp Bizkit song... _________________ "When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."- C.S. Lewis
"Superman can't be emo. He can't cut himself."-CP |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:28 pm |
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What I'm doing is simply downloading the ASF files and then converting them to WMA using Movie Maker. And it's going quickly, like 5 seconds for a 5 minute song. |
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Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:25 pm |
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I just got a program which captures audio through the audio card, so I just listen to the song and the program records it into mp3 file. |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:15 pm |
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whats that program? _________________ Anime Conquers all.
1.Dragonball Z
2.Naruto
3.Yu Yu Hakusho |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:55 pm |
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We Mac people just use AudioHijack or WireTap.
...or mplayer to just dump the stream to a file.
...and convert it to .mp4, mp3, wav or aiff with ffmpeg or mencoder.
I'm sorry to hear that there's no software for Windows. Maybe someday you'll learn... _________________ My old sig was too long. |
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Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:24 pm |
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Yes there is software for windows. Its called dBpowerAMP Music Converter (dMC). Its free for 30 days and then it costs $14. It can capture audio from the sound card, mic, and other stuff, and record it into an mp3 file. |
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Thu Aug 04, 2005 9:08 am |
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Sound Recorder works fine as well. _________________ Bang. |
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Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:16 am |
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sound recorder sucks _________________ The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:08 pm |
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