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Old 05-09-2010, 08:59 AM
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Re: how does ripping a stream work? is it a transcode?


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Originally Posted by Stream Recorder View Post
If you record from a sound card, you lose some quality (of course you can use lossless formats, but then you will waste hard disk space).

If you download stream or capture packets from a streaming media player, you get a perfect digital copy of the stream (without any quality loss).
but what if the player transcodes the original file?

or does that not happen
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