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Originally Posted by pawel

Yep, Dime allows direct captures of DAB but also conversion to wav > flac which is a nonsense imo, particularly in case of downsampling from 48 to 44.1 kHz.

this is great you brought this up... as I understand it early (and later) etree.org approved shn dat rips were converted wholesale from 48kHz to 44.1kHz. Now that we don't use cds those gd/phish people need to get to work capturing perfectly at 48kHz before they all die and the dats are lost. etree 2020, this is where we are at.

back on topic, (astonishingly) sounds fine so far. what goes wrong with this? what 'bad seeds' abusing this loophole will show up (examples from dime if you've seen). I'm imagining ppl capturing mp3 badly and changing to mp2 extension like an idiot. can we differentiate mp2/mp3? ac3 is very difficult to spot (pls help) and theoretically could cause similar problems.