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Audio Streaming InformationHow to Capture Streaming Audio
by:
Ross MacIver
Streaming audio is all over the web these days. There are live radio broadcasts, video and audio streams, and galore music vendors use streaming audio as samples of their products. You can listen to the song, but unless you buy it, it can’t be keep on your computer. Or can it? The simple answer is “Yes”! We’ll take a look at a few methods for recording streaming audio.
First of all, we should examine what streaming technology is and what it is used for. The traditional know-how
of listening to music or observation videos on your computer was to transfer
the entire file and play it from your hard drive. Streaming works in real time – you can view the video or listen to the music as it is being downloaded. The data arrives in a “stream” of bits from the server to your computer.
The obvious advantage of streaming is saving time – you can listen to the stream a few seconds after the transfer
is started. Streamed audio and video can besides be protected from repetition by Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology. This is often done by commercial vendors of video and audio to control distribution of their content.
Even with DRM, however, all audio and video streams can be recorded. The simplest way to record streaming audio is to attach a recorder to the output jack of your soundcard. Any recording device – portable MP3 player, container
deck, MiniDisc etc. can be used. The problem with this know-how
is that you have to convert the digital stream into analog, and there will be several loss in sound quality.
If you will to support the audio stream in the digital domain, you need special software system to capture it. Most audio capture software system works by emulating a sound card. You feed the output of the emulated sound card to a file, and as the audio is streamed to your computer it is captured to file. Any kind of audio stream can be captured this way no matter whether it is compete with Windows Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime, or any another audio streamer.
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Ross is an enthusiast audio professional take advantage of his cognition just about MP3, AAC,OGG, FLAC SHN and another compression
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