What is the difference between burning a CD and ripping a CD?

Answer 1

cd burning is writing your files to a cd by some programs like Nero or Windows Xp writer
but ripping a cd is copying your audio files from cd to your computer
for example windows media player rip your audio cd and save them as wma files in your hard disk

Answer 2

Burning a CD means to put data onto a CD.

Ripping a CD means reading data from a CD. Usally ripping is used to describe taking music tracks from a CD and making them into files to be played on the computer.

Answer 3

Ripping a CD is taking the audio OFF of a CD. Burning is putting stuff ON a CD.

Answer 4

When you burn a CD you are actually copying the CD to another compact disk. But when you rip a CD you are copying the music to your computer.

Answer 5

ripping a CD is taking a song or data off a cd as everyone said, it's just a new term that was put out. burning a cd is putting data or music on, it permantly puts it on , a laser burns a dent in a cd so lasers can know there is something on it

Answer 6

Ripping music from a CD is to convert the files from said CD to a format understood by another application or device. Burning music to a CD is to take those ripped (converted files: mp3, aac, aiff) files and record them onto digital media (CD or DVD).

Answer 7

Ripping is copying the tracks of a CD onto your hard drive, whereas burning a CD is copying contents of your hard drive onto a CD.

Answer 8

Ripping === copying from CD
Burning === copying to CD

Answer 9

ripping is puttin the cd data onto ur computer and burning is creating a cd disk

Answer 10

ripping is cd to computer

burning is computer to cd