The price goes to Restiffbard. The iTunes Applescript does the job exactly the way I wanted it. Thanks a lot for your suggestions though, they will undoubtedly come in handy at some later point in time.

I am now happily converting RealAudio files into mp3 format and experimenting with bit-rates. I’d better make some room on that mp3 player for Bucky!

Once again I am in your debt, Dr Grey. I raise my cap to you sir!

this is what I wanted to find!

Hmm… Yeah I guess that might work. I’ll have to try it out.

Oops, in the “cat /Users/tangent/music/iTunes…” paste it took away the back slashes, so disregard the paste.

the best way to turn the rm into mp3 is a piece of software called RM to mp3 converter, look for it on bit torrent.

To save you a step here are some mp3 stream from NPR affiliates. Now if only I could legaly provide these streams via Podcast

Maybe you should try Google for a change ;) Google Search: Join mp3s, check the 3rd en 7th result.