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The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers

The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers

Posted May 10, 2006 16:35 UTC (Wed) by MenTaLguY (guest, #21879)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers

Hmm, the way most players support recording is by providing a "disk writer" output plugin which writes to a .WAV file instead of the sound card. I'm fairly certain XMMS ships with one, for example.


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The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers

Posted May 10, 2006 20:55 UTC (Wed) by havardk (subscriber, #810) [Link]

Hmm, the way most players support recording is by providing a "disk writer" output plugin which writes to a .WAV file instead of the sound card. I'm fairly certain XMMS ships with one, for example.
Yes but that's not very practical for timeshifting.

XMMS can also dump ogg/vorbis and mp3 streams in original format, and that might be a good option, atleast if you want to listen to the stream at the same time.

Not. Want. WAV.

Posted May 11, 2006 11:17 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

It's a lossily-compressed stream. You don't want to store that in uncompressed form (takes too much disk space, even these days...), and sound quality is very unlikely to be improved by re-compression.

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