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Originally Posted by mchalu
Sorry, I'm probably not making myself clear enough. What if there is a website with a 'listen-again' programme. But it doesn't say what bit-rate it plays. Similarly, I am using nexus radio and sometimes in the status bar it says 64 kbps but the station info says 128 kbps. In 'Sound Capture' or sound recorders I have to specify what bit-rate my resultant mp3 file should be. How do I know what bit-rate is sent to my computer?
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The only solution I had was mentioned in the second post:
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If there are no such properties in your media player, you can rip/capture/download a stream and check the bit-rate of the recorded file(s).
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Also stream rippers and streaming media players usually negotiate a bit-rate. If you look onto the logs you can find something like
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07.02.2008 15:32:23.843 content-type: audio/mpeg
07.02.2008 15:32:23.843 icy-br: 128
Which means that this is a Shoutcast stream using MPEG audio codec. And the bit-rate is 128 kbps.
Besides analyzing logs you can use
Proxomitron that shows negotiations between servers and clients.