Are there any freeware software that can rip an audio stream ram file and convert it to the highest quality mp3..

Shareware is ok but it has to be like really good. I prefer freeware tho.

You would be better off to capture the stream in it's native format, "RM", and then transcode to MP3. It you want to capture and transcode in real time, Winamp (freeware) can do it with appropriate plugins.

Winamp plays RAM??? May i ask which plugins are neccessary or recomended.

this guy has it all written up with links.

http://swen.antville.org/stories/735413/

cheers,
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Thanks i got it to work with that Great tut...\

I used notpad grabed the rm link, downloaded it with flashget grabbed the codec and converted it to flac..

now i just got this tiny issue where winamp doesnt play flac files even with the plugin, ima reboot and see if it wrks.. thanks again..

This a bit hokey, but never mind.

I wrote a little batch file to post-process my streambox downloaded realaudio files. It relies on using
a) Streambox VCR
b) mplayer
c) an command-line mp3 encoder (I use helix mp3, but gogo or lame work).

May well need Windows 2000 or later for the extended syntax on 'for'.

Save it in the same directory as the streambox vcr.exe and change the paths for mplayer and helix. Here it is: