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Ipod and Podcast (is a '.ram' a podcast?)
Final Score
27-08-2006
I listen to Radio 7 on the internet. I have download loads of radio shows onto my laptop. They always come up with a number followed by '.ram' . Is this a podcast? Could I download these '.rams' onto an Ipod.
strawberry66
27-08-2006
You will need a Real Player to play these clips on your computer, but Real Player its self is a bloated piece of spyware IMO

This does the job without any spyware

Real alternative

You won't be able to play .ram on your Ipod in its current format. If you can find a converter which will convert .ram to mp3 or .ram to wav formats then you would be able to put them on your Ipod.

No it won't be a podcast as I have never heard of a podcast in a .ram format as no mp3 player would be able to play it

A quick search on google brought up this piece of software that moght do the trick
http://www.tomdownload.com/audio_mp3...p3_convert.htm

And this is a link that I saw on another forum which I think would enable you to record from the BBC in an MP3 format
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bbc2mp3/
Last edited by strawberry66 : 27-08-2006 at 23:09
Final Score
27-08-2006
Fantastic
I'll give it a go, I'll let you know how it goes
Thank you
Final Score
27-08-2006
Hi Strawberry
The BBC has stopped doing their software
The other wanted $25 dollars to download some software, never done that is it safe?

So I can listen to these things on real player but not on ipod without a convertor, and there is a fee for that .
Will I be charged each time I down load something

God what a geek I am
strawberry66
27-08-2006
Originally Posted by Final Score:
“Hi Strawberry
The BBC has stopped doing their software
The other wanted $25 dollars to download some software, never done that is it safe?

So I can listen to these things on real player but not on ipod without a convertor, and there is a fee for that .
Will I be charged each time I down load something

God what a geek I am”

Hi
No you won't be charged,once you have got the software then that is it. You just buy it the once usually.
Bear with me and I will have a quick look to see if there is any free software or a trial software to enable you to convert to an mp3 or wav format .

Once you have downloaded real alternative then that is it, it is free and you can listen to and watch alot of the clips and also pages like this
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/ which is good fun


Edit back again had a quick surf and came up with this
http://www.mp3towav.org/rm-to-mp3.asp
Its lets you download a trial version, there are usually limitations on a trial version, but at least you could try before you buy.

Good luck
Last edited by strawberry66 : 27-08-2006 at 23:57
Ugg
30-08-2006
I use "mplayer" to do this without any problems. I'm using Linux, but I believe that there's a Windows version available too. It's available from here:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

A 30-minute BBC7 program creates an MP3 file of aaround 33Mb, which is a lot more than a regular podcast would be, but it's better than nothing.
moisie
30-08-2006
A podcast can technically be any format that you can listen to. The thing that makes it a podcast is the combination of audio (and video) which is tied to an rss feed. You subscribe to this feed in a suitable reader such as iTunes, newsfire, whatever. This reader then downloads the new content whenever it becomes available.

Essentially it's no different than subscribing to any other website feed except rather than being text/image based it's audio. Podcast has just become the defacto name for it, much like vodcast is being used by some people for video based podcasts.

In order for any content from a podcast to play on an iPod it will need to contain media that an iPod would normally be able to play were it added to your regular library. As such, .ram would not work.
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