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Old 05-24-2010, 12:30 PM
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Re: how does ripping a stream work? is it a transcode?


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so when capturing the file it doesn't matter that the player is transcoding on the fly because you are grabbing the file before the transcode process?
When you capture or download, you just get packets digitally. So say if an mp3 file is broadcasted, you download it or capture packets and then save them as an mp3 file; you do it instead of transcoding, converting,... them, so there is no quality loss.

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