Is it possible to record a streaming audio source to CD? (I apologize if I've missed any guide/thread on this subject. This is the first time I've considered audio info at this site.)
if your streaming off winamp there are a number of application that allow you to record the stream to an mp3 file then you can just burn the mp3 as an audio cd
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if the stream is 22050 Hz, then don't convert it to mp3 if you want to burn to CD. that will further reduce the quality if you convert a lossy format to another lossy format. use dBPowerAMP (http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm) to decompress the mp3 stream file to WAVE format, and make sure you convert it to a 16 bit 44100 Hz wave file. Then you can burn it to an audio CD with whatever burning app you use such as nero
I'm really intrigued with this stuff...but am pretty green to it all. So is it possible to get a track back to the quality it was at prior to someone taking it down to 64hz to stream? Sorry if too many questions but thank you for the assistance.
to answer your first question, yes you can break it up into individual tracks, but you will have to do it manually. after you have your wave file you created from dBPowerAMP, you can open it up in a free audio editor called Audactiy, and split up the file and export individual files per each track.
as for your second question, unfortunately no, you can improve the quality of an audio file once it has been compressed. I assume from the low bitrate it probably doesn't sound that good. If there is a higher bitrate of the stream, then by all means use that one instead. but there's not much you can do to improve the quality of a highly compressed file.
