Max & '.rar' audio files
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Max & '.rar' audio files
Dear Sir:
I've received an audiobook from a fellow P2P participant which has an extension .rar However, I've discovered it's not a compressed .rar archive, but rather a .rar audio file. Can your program Max play such files or convert them to MP3 / M4A format which I can play via Itunes on my Mac running OS X 10.4.8? If not, do you have any recommendations? This particular P2P contributor is in Germany and has moved many of his English language audiobooks to this .rar format - whereas I record a lot of BBC Radio programs in M4A format which he downloads. Any advice and/or help would be appreciated by this not-so-cutting-edge 60-year-old..
Regards
I've received an audiobook from a fellow P2P participant which has an extension .rar However, I've discovered it's not a compressed .rar archive, but rather a .rar audio file. Can your program Max play such files or convert them to MP3 / M4A format which I can play via Itunes on my Mac running OS X 10.4.8? If not, do you have any recommendations? This particular P2P contributor is in Germany and has moved many of his English language audiobooks to this .rar format - whereas I record a lot of BBC Radio programs in M4A format which he downloads. Any advice and/or help would be appreciated by this not-so-cutting-edge 60-year-old..
Regards
Are you sure this isn't a .rar compressed WAVE or other audio file? I've just done a bit of reading about rar, and it appears to be a generic compression format suited to many uses (just like zip, bzip2, etc)- which you appear to know already from your original post.
If you drop the .rar file on The Unarchiver, do you get a file out of it?
If you drop the .rar file on The Unarchiver, do you get a file out of it?
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When I drop the .rar file on The Unarchiver there is a message to the effect that this isn't a compressed file and/or archive. The Mac version of Windows Media Player won't open it. It also won't open with RealPlayer or QuickTime or ITunes - or SoundJam and Zip for that matter. That's why I wondered if there's a specialized .rar player or whether MAX can play these .rar audio files.
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Re: Max & '.rar' audio files
I've never seen any "Rar" audio files ... that's a new one on me. More likely it's a compressed rar archive.tempusfugit wrote:Dear Sir:
I've received an audiobook from a fellow P2P participant which has an extension .rar However, I've discovered it's not a compressed .rar archive, but rather a .rar audio file. Can your program Max play such files or convert them to MP3 / M4A format which I can play via Itunes on my Mac running OS X 10.4.8? If not, do you have any recommendations? This particular P2P contributor is in Germany and has moved many of his English language audiobooks to this .rar format - whereas I record a lot of BBC Radio programs in M4A format which he downloads. Any advice and/or help would be appreciated by this not-so-cutting-edge 60-year-old..
Regards
Download MacParDeluxe and drop your file on it; that program can decode every .rar file I've ever downloaded ... The Unarchiver isn't a dedicated Rar application.
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