Friday, August 20, 2010

How to convert a .trm file to a .mp3 file (Court Transcription Audio Files)

Recently I was tasked with the problem of trying to convert a court audio recording (.trm) to .mp3 so that the file could be easily shared with others involved in the litigation. After extensive Google searching I found there is no direct way that you can convert .trm to .mp3.

What you can do, however, is simply have the file play and use a program that will capture the audio playing on the computer and encode that as an .mp3.

First, to open the .trm file you need to have a program that is capable of opening this file and playing it. I used ForTheRecord player, available free here. http://community.fortherecord.com/
You must first register at the site (free) to allow you to download the free software.


Then I tried several free audio capturing programs before I finally found one that not only worked, but was pretty easy to install and use... FreeCorder.

http://www.applian.com/sound-recorder/



Free corder actually installs as a tool bar on your internet explorer... not my favorite place to have it installed, but it works and the price is right... (free!).

Simply launch Internet Explorer and get your trm player ready. Then click the Record Audio button on the Freecorder bar in Internet Explorer to start the recording.



Now quickly hit play on your trm player. You will see Freecorder capturing and recording the audio.



When you are done capturing the audio, simply move the mouse over the Freecorder recording window and hit Stop Recording.

Once you hit Stop Recording your mp3 version of whatever audio you were playing will be saved to a folder name Freecorder in your My Documents folder. In my particular setup, two copies of the audio file were saved using different drivers. Just pick the one that sounds the best if this happens.


Now you know how to not only convert .trm files to .mp3, but virtually convert any type of audio to .mp3!






65 comments:

  1. Those TRM files are just DRM'ed WMA files with a TRM extension. You can convert them to WAV with mplayer.exe. Once they're converted to normal WAV, there are a zillion options to get them to MP3 or whatever. You really don't want to use your process for an all-day court hearing.

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  2. Fred, I tried opening these files every possible way before writing this post. Can you please explain how you use Media Player to convert a TRM to a normal .wav?

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  3. Hi Charlie..I have few .trm files and I also have the record player from FTR but the problem is whenever I try opening the .trm files from the record player..it crashes. I just am not able to play those .trm files nor am I able to convert it.
    I need a solution for this asap....please advise.

    Sunny.

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  4. I have found a solution that will batch convert FTR'S .trm files to .mp3...

    The problem is that I'm playing hell figuring out how to duplicate the setup on the one computer that's capable of doing it.
    I installed eRightSoft's SUPER (2010.build.38) on my WinXP system, along with several DirectShow codecs (ffdshow) and I can just drag and drop the .trm files into SUPER, select MP3 as the output container, check off the DirectShow decode option and it works like a charm.

    But my new system is Win7x64 and even running XP Virtual Mode, and installing the same components, I simply cannot get it to work.
    I can only assume that I've forgotten about a component I installed on the XP system. I went through no less than five or six different converter programs about three years ago when I was trying to find an app that would allow me to convert .flv to .mp4, and found that SUPER also worked for our .trm files > .mp3 by accident.

    There are newer versions of SUPER out there, but quite frankly, I haven't been brave enough to update to a more current version for fear that my setup will no longer work... not broke, don't fix it mentality... And needless to say, I'm kicking myself for not documenting my testing process a little better...

    If anyone can use ^this^ information and run with it, please post your resolution if you manage to get it working... I'd just LOVE to know what I'm missing so that I can finally move on from my old laptop to my Win7 system. :-(

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  5. Charlie, I said nothing about Windows Media Player. I said mplayer.exe. MPlayer is an open source media player that has nothing to do with Windows Media Player.

    Google it.

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  6. TRM files do not use DRM or WMA at all.

    They use MPEG4-AAC for the audio encoding and WMV for the video side of things. They use a propriety interleaving process for files with more than 2 channels of audio.
    I have never come across any player that will play files with greater than 2 channels.

    FTR can actually convert to WMA using 'TheRecord Manager - Standard edition' which is freely available and convert to various other formats using 'TheRecord Manager - Access edition'

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  7. TheRecord Manager Basic edition works and is free. The Standard edition is not free. You can get the Basic edition here: http://community.fortherecord.com/index.php?/files/file/974-therecord-manager-55-basic-edition/.

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  8. I need to know if the .trm file, whether after conversion or other process, can ever become stereo. I am having a very hard time listening with one ear. :(

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  9. This fix was excellent. Thank you!

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  10. You guys saved my bacon. I work in the LE community and had to convert a commutation hearing. It worked like a champ. Thank you for all your hard work.

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