I've been enjoying my Streambox VCR for some time now, but I have no idea what settings to use when converting the captured stream into MP3 using Streambox Ripper. The best I can hope to know about my .ra or .rm files is the bit rate and mono/stereo info. What setting do I use to convert my stream into MP3 without losing the audio quality but without squandering space either? Thanks.

Thanks for the pointer. Still, I am unsure about the mono/stereo aspect. RealAudio seems to double the file size with the same bitrate in case of stereo signal as opposed to mono. Yet the MP3 encoder seems to produce a file of the same size regardless of whether I set the encoding output setting to mono or stereo. Does this mean that I have to at least double the MP3 bitrate to account for a RealAudio stereo signal to get appr. the same audio quality?