There is an official American Life website. It is called This American Life and it has podcasts and RealAudio streams. This American Life is a weekly public radio show.

With most Windows and Linux audio devices, it is possible to record whatever sound the computer is currently playing, including internet radio streams.

Use windows media player and sync the files to an mp3 player then go into the the contianing folder for the mp3 music and then drag and drop the files into a folder in the my documents and you should have mp3 files or wmv files.

MP3 files are real, compressed audio. Programs like Audacity can open the file and save it as a uncompressed wave file. If you are referring to the RealAudio format (.RA), RealNetworks offers a encoder on their website for free, although this file format is hardly used anymore and is virtually extinct.

River Past Audio Converter can help you,it can Convert from almost any audio format to WAV, MP3, WMA, or audio-only AVI. We support a variety of input formats, including the standard WAV, MP3, WMA, AIFF, RealAudio, and the not-so-standard OGG, AIFF, and Unix Audio.

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