Streaming audio is all on the Web these days. There are radio broadcasts live, streaming audio and video, music and many suppliers use as streaming audio samples of their products. You can listen to the song, but unless you buy, it can not be stored on your computer. Or can it? The answer is simple: “Yes!” We’ll take a look at some methods to record streaming audio. First, we should consider what is and what technology it serves. The traditional method of listening to music or watch videos on your computer to download the entire file and play your hard drive. Streaming works in real time – you can view the video or listen to music because it is being downloaded. The data comes in a “flow” of bits of the server to your computer.
The obvious advantage of streaming is saving time – you can listen to the flow a few seconds after the download starts. Streaming audio and video can also be protected against copying by digital rights management (DRM) technology. This is often done by commercial providers of video and audio to control the distribution of their content.
Even with DRM, however, all streaming audio and video can be recorded. The easiest way to record streaming audio is a recorder output jack of your sound card. While recording device – portable MP3 player, cassette deck, etc. MiniDisc can be used. The problem with this method is that you have to convert the analog to digital, and there will be some loss of sound quality.
If you want to keep the audio stream in the digital domain, you need special software to capture. Most audio capture software works by emulating a sound card. You feed the output of emulating the sound card in a file, and streaming audio is at your computer, it is captured in a file. Any form of streaming audio can be captured in this way, no matter whether it is played with Windows Media Player, Real Player, Quicktime, or any other audio tape.