Spotify,Replay Music question before purchase

Hi - I've tried out ripping tracks from Spotify using the demo version of Replay Music. All seems to work very well.

My question is, does Replay Music capture from the Spotify Stream, or from the sound card output ?

If only from the sound card, is there a way to capture the stream direct so that, for example, the recorded file is a bit for bit copy of the original stream at say 320kbps and so does not rely on the quality of the sound card?

Thanks very much for any help ...

Replay Music records from sound card. Try to download from Spotify with Replay Media Catcher.

Media Catcher does not work with Spotify. We recommend using Replay Music for this site.

Thanks for the replies - very helpful. It's a shame that Media Catcher does not work with Spotify. I'll try out the quality of the recordings from the sound card using Replay Music and maybe post the findings ...