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Originally Posted by mchalu
as far as recordnig a stream is concerned, in most of the sound capturing applications you have to set the bit-rate prior to recording so that the bit-rate of the resultant file is determined by your settings. This means that your file can be too big for the 'real' underlying bit-rate you can hear. Similarly, you can lose some quality if you set the bit-rate too low.
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Few streams have multiple bit-rates at the same URL. If you select the max one in your stream ripper and/or media player, then the highest possible bit-rate will be used when ripping, so you will definitely not lose any quality.
You should also know that stream recording and capturing are misused very often. If you capture/download/rip your stream, you do not lose any quality. But if you record from your sound card, then you can lose some quality (alternatively you can use lossless codecs when recording from your sound card, but the recorded files will be pretty big).