[WinMac] Downloading RealAudio files

Subject: [WinMac] Downloading RealAudio files
From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 08:27:13 EST

I want download some RealAudio files at work where I have a fast Internet connection and then save them to a zip disk so I can then play them on my PowerBook at home which only has a dial-up connection. It's the same thing I do with MP3 files but with the RealAudio file all I get is a *.ram file and is only a tiny little file that if I open in BBEdit, I see that it's just a URL starting with "pnm://" which is pointing to a *.rm file which is the real big RealAudio file. If I cut and paste that URL into my browser it doesn't download, it starts up RealAudio and begins to play. I don't want to play it now I just want to download it. If I substitute http:// for pnm:// it doesn't work.

I also tried setting some preferences in my browser to force IE to handle the pnm protocol and save to disk but that didn't work either. From what I've read on-line, it sounds like pnm is RealAudio's proprietary protocol and unless the website makes the *.ra file available via http, there's not much I can do. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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 Tom Roth * tomroth@wfubmc.edu * tel 336.716.4493
 Wake Forest University School of Medicine
 Dept of Biomedical Communications
 Medical Center Blvd * Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
 http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/

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