# Real Audio to WAV

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-audio-to-wav/26469>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 22, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-audio-to-wav/26469 "2000-07-22T16:15:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-audio-to-wav/26469/1 "2000-07-22T16:15:25Z")

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The thread about converting MP3 to WAV got me thinking. I have no difficulty converting MP3 to WAV and I use Cool Edit to record, edit etc audio files. It does much more than I need.

But I have not been able to directly convert RA to WAV. What I do is play it in one computer and take that analog output to another computer and record it in whatever format I like. It works fine and I do not need to do it very often so it’s no big deal. but I am wondering if there’s some software out there that will do this conversion directly.