Questions for rippers.

[demonAfro]

What source do you use for audio?

What hardware do you use?

What postprocessing do you do, and with which software?


I ask because I have a dvb card, which gives a respectable 192k radio 1, but only 128k kiss 100, and it is mp2... Is there any point converting mp2 to mp3?

[Jibgolly]

you can use total recorder to rip net streams.
i believe there are 6,000 versions of it so who knows what the latest and greateest is.
that will record to a default Wav file so i use sound forge to convert them to mp3.
ive never come across an mp2 file so dunno what to say about that.
there are plenty of rippers out there though.

[demonAfro]

Thanks for the info Jibgolly.

I was thinking more about ripping from digital radio and digital tv which transmit as mpeg 1 layer 2 which is nearly layer 3 but not quite. Radio 1 DAB releases always seem to be 192k mp3 but it appears to only broadcast at 128k mp2, does it just get re-encoded at a higher bitrate to preserve quality?