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Originally Posted by Iggy64
Even if the Audacity .auf format is lossless, it is still doing no better than capturing all the information in the streamed mp3. And in order to play the file captured by Audacity, I could code it to FLAC or APE to make it playable on most players, as you suggested. I wonder how the file size would turn out. I might have to try this just to see. In any case, I don't think I want to recompress back to an mp3, since that would no doubt degrade the audio relative to the original mp3. |
IMHO there is no sense to use lossless codecs when recording 128k radio streams. Your will get much larger files (probably 10-20 times larger than 128k MP3s).
And it is very subjective whether the quality will degrade that much when re-encoding to MP3. IMHO it is OK to re-encode. Although I would prefer to use stream ripping software (especially when you can use some freeware software like
StreamRipper).
And it is usually a good idea to re-encode MP3 to MP3, WMA to WMA, AAC to AAC,...