I guess Real wants people to pay for that privilege. LOL Well, the files are already in MP3 format, and yes, it will convert WAV to Real, but what would I need to convert the existing MP3 files to WAV? A friend of mine who lives several hundred miles away says he prefers to receive RA files rather than MP3. He said something about them being easier for his pc to process. I don't know, but I thought MP3 would be fairly easy.