Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

Stream recording has a very ambiguos meaning. It is used in whatever way the software vendor likes it to be used.
In my statement by stream recording on Mac OS I obviously meant stream capturing/ripping/downloading on Mac OS.

Direct sound recording has many disadvantages which many experienced users know well. Here are some of them:

• You get bigger files or lower quality.
• You can end up with system sounds or any other sounds in your recordings
• You can't do many things on your computer that involve sound card usage, when something is recorded.
• You can't record multiple streams at the same time (unless you have multiple sound cards)
• You can't split and tag recorded songs (unless you use Replay Music for Windows that can record anything from your sound card automaticaly splitting and tagging songs)