[thelist] You can play a song but you can't download it

[Bernardo Escalona]

Steve:

True dat, you do lose some quality, mainly when it comes to encoding
as mp3. But as you said, picky audiophiles would probably go and buy
the record for its cd quality anyway.

I find it very useful to record streams from radio shows that are
unavailable in stores or as downloads. The "morning becomes eclectic"
show at KCRW ( http://www.kcrw.com/show/mb/ ) with Nic Harcourt is a
great example.

They usually have pretty good guest artists, and when they stream
live, they do so at very good quiality (once the shows pass on to
their archives they trim down the quality to save disk), so i like to
make cd's for myself of their usually acoustic, informal, chit-chatty
performances.

Please dont take this as an encouragement to break any copyright laws
like I do, though :)

Berns

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:52:35 -0600, Stephen Rider
<evolt_org at striderweb.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mar 4, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Bernardo Escalona wrote:
> 
> > Actually you can use any software that can record sound (like
> > soundforge), select the proper input device and record the stream
> > without losing any quality whatsoever. then you edit it, split them
> > into tracks if you want, and save them as wavs or mp3.
> 
> Minor technical quibble RE: that statement.  When you do this you are
> taking a sound signal and encoding it when you save it. MP3 and wav are
> "lossy" formats, and do lose a bit of sound quality every time you
> re-save or re-encode.  The meat of the statement is entirely correct
> however -- with proper settings, the loss of quality is such that
> generally only major audiophiles will ever notice the difference.
> 
> (and major audiophiles probably won't be satisfied with MP3s or
> streaming quality anyway, rendering the point moot ;-) )
> 
> Steve
> 
> 


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