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Not. Want. WAV.

Posted May 11, 2006 11:17 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers by MenTaLguY
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to audio stream grabbers

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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