Robert De Mars wrote: > Hello, and a good day to you all. This is almost off topic, but will be > run on a Slackware box, so here goes. > > Does anyone know of a program that can convert real audio (.rm) files > into .mp3 format. I do not run a GUI, so it would need to be run from > the shell. > > I keep an audio archive for a church. Basicly the church makes > available a daily broadcast, and stores them on their website for 7 > days. After 7 days, the newer files bump the older one off. For > reasons unknown, I offered to mirror the site, and maintain an archive > of all the files. The church broadcasts are in .rm format. > > Several years have gone by since I setup the archive, and I was starting > to wonder if anyone ever used it. In the past week, I have received > several requests for the files in .mp3 format. > > Ideally, I would like my machine to download the files daily (as it > currently does), and then have them automaticly converted to .mp3? > > Any thoughts on this would be grand. > > Thanks! > > Robert De Mars Look into MEncoder. It is a sister to MPlayer, and can decode and encode a wide variety of formats from the command line. You might need to install some codecs to get this to work however. -Dean