I was asked this evening by PM how to record Realplayer files from the BBC Radio internet site,which plays tracks of shows from the internet, but you can’t record them. So how do you do it?

You'll need a reasonable amount of experience to do this, otherwise ask a 15year old to help you! <g>

Rm recorder can be used to decipher actual url as shown below, even though only on 2 minute trial time
http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/145062-N8IK/WMRsetup.exe

So for instance if you go to this page
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bringsyou/robbiewilliams/1.shtml
and want to download the following BBC radio tracks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/media/051020_robbie.ram
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/media/051020_robbieqa.ram

1st stage

put both of those urls into WMR and get the following urls.

rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/051020_robbieqa.rm
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/051020_robbie.rm

2nd stage

download this program
http://www.qwerks.com/download/8498/BBCRadioRipper.exe

3rd stage

Run BBCRadio Ripper and Load (eg)
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/051020_robbieqa.rm as the url
then rip as MP3 file

Run BBCRadio Ripper and Load (eg)
rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio1/051020_robbie.rm
then rip as MP3 file

You'll have to do this on broadband, as on dial up, you'll time