I have downloaded a music file but it is in the form of .rar - my windows media player will not open it. Is there any ways that I can convert this into a mp3 file? Programs to download etc.? thanks
2007-01-13 01:32:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
http://www.rarlab.com/
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2007-01-13 01:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by jan 7 · 1⤊ 12⤋
.rar is like .zip except a rar file is compressed differently, using a superior algarythm. Use WinRAR to open it first (works similar to WinZip) and export it to your desktop. You should then be able to play the file with WMP so long as the Codec (coder/decoder) that was used to make the video or music file in the first place is installed on your computer. Common ones are DivX, Xvid, WMA,WMV,OGG, AAC and Mp3.
2007-01-13 01:48:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the file was compressed using winrar
use winrar to un-rar it
PS. Depending on what you downloaded you may or may not have what you think you have. Many times full albums are zipped into several small sized rar files. So you might only have one of the pieces of the larger puzzle.
2007-01-13 01:38:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
rar is an archive file simiar to zip. Windows doesn't recognise it as standard. A few programs to extract it would be
http://ww.extractnow.com
http://www.7-zip.org
http://www.izarc.org
all free 7-zip is what I use
2007-01-13 02:26:18 · answer #4 · answered by Gordon B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-13 01:37:42 · answer #5 · answered by graham 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need to decompress it with a bit of software called winrar
http://www.rarlab.com/ it is free to download
2007-01-13 01:36:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋