While RealPlayer seemed to originally be designed to prevent users from capturing/recording/ripping/saving downloading music or video content to their hard drives, the new version 11 allows users to save streaming content to hd. So RealPlayer became a stream ripper software.

The problem is that RealPlayer saves its recordings using its new proprietary format called Internet Video Recording (IVR). I can't tell you for sure whether it can save some streams to their native formats or not. At least it captures MP3 audio streams to .IVR files.

As far as I can remember RealPlayer has always been a "heavy" player. That is why many people prefer to use Real Alternative. The same situation is with RealPlayer as a stream ripper. It can't split and tag songs when ripping MP3 streams. It saves to .IVR files that can only be played by RealPlayer.

Apecsoft IVR to WMV MP3 Converter is the First free trial audio/video converters for the .IVR (Internet Video Recording) files. If you wanna transfer your audio/video stream recording to a portable player, You can download IVR Converter and install it. it is very simple to use.

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You can also burn IVR audio files to an audio CD and then rip your CD to MP3 or any other format. But you will need to pay for the Real Player.