In article , Don Pearce
wrote:
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:41:02 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:


I don't suppose it makes a great deal of difference if you record
using a lossless format, but isn't it more logical to just capture
the streamed audio?

Erm... that is what I have been doing. Recording the mp3 stream as an
mp3 file on my computer. Then writing these files into a CDRW for
playing on various 'audio'/'video' disc players.


Can you really do that - record an MP3 stream as an MP3 file, I mean? I
thought the file got decoded to straight PCM, the recoded as MP3 for
writing to the file. How else would you generate the file header?

I've just been judging by results. I record a steam which plays as an mp3
on my computer, and when written as a data file onto CDRW plays as an mp3
on the DVD Video/CD Audio players I have that can recognise mp3. The size
of the file agrees with the bitrates specified for the radio streams.

Not clear to me why the program would have to do more than simply write the
data as it arrives (via the buffering for transfer delays) since I am
recording mp3 from an mp3 stream.

I'll do some experiments to check. I'll also ask the author of the software
as he explained to me how to do recordings in the first place.

Slainte,

Jim

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