Finding converter for audio in non-mp3, wma formats

[Will_518]

I've been looking for a freeware converter for .dat to .mp3 and .rm (but audio only) to mp3
and i've had no luck, i've seen a few that costs me $40, but shouldn't there be a freeware that does this? or at least a converter on BT or something.
Please help me find this converter.

p.s. i don't mean wma to mp3 and mp3 to wma converters. I mean converters for audio files in other formats or audio in video formats, e.g. .dat to mp3 or .avi to mp3 or .rm to mp3 ... etc

[vivitron 15]

is .dat an audio format? are you using kazaa by any chance?

[Vargas]

i use winamp myself to do that, you need an input plugin for non default formats, like the tara plugin for real formats, and the diskwrite or LAME output plugin.

[DarthInsinuate]

dbpoweramp should be able to do it, just get the appropiate codecs from their site

[orcutt989]

dbpoweramp should be able to do it, just get the appropiate codecs from their site

Seconded. I wasnt aware DAT was an audio file. Isnt that just a Kazza temporary file?

[vivitron 15]

thats what i thought

[Vargas]

though unlikely, it could also be media from a VCD

[Will_518]

yeah, it is the media from VCDs, i got a lot of music VCD from a few years back.

[Will_518]

thanks for the dbpoweramp suggestion, it's a great software, especially that it looks like freeware. It can convert realmedia files after a plugin, but can still only play .dat files rather than convert them. Still, it does half the job.

[vivitron 15]

well can you not use VCDeasy to extract the audio to whatever? i thought that was possible