Doese Ripping music off of a cd take the music off of the cd?

Answer 1

The Short Answer:
No

The Long Answer:
Ripping is the process of copying the audio or video data from one media form, such as Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) or Compact Disc (CD), to a hard disk. While the original media is typically digital, the extraction of analog media such as VHS video or vinyl records to a digital format can also be referred to as "ripping". To conserve storage space, the copied data is usually encoded in a compressed format such as MP3, WMA or Ogg Vorbis for audio, or MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD or Ogg Theora for video.

For consumers of digital content, there are a number of practical uses for ripping. Many digital camcorders now write directly to DVD. Ripping is required to extract that content onto a computer for editing, storage, duplication or backup purposes. Another is to allow the owners of CDs or DVDs to listen to or view that content in a more flexible way. For example, ripping can allow users to listen to music from a number of different albums without having to change discs and make customized playlists of the music. Ripping can also be used to allow music to be played on portable digital audio players.

Ripping also allows content to be losslessly copied for a very low or essentially zero cost and given to those who did not purchase it, possibly substituting for sales of content. Hence it has aroused fierce opposition by the recording industry, who view it as theft.

Since the music or video is transferred to a data file, the files can be shared with other computer users over the Internet.

Ripping may not capture all data on an audio CD. CD-Text may be captured, but additional CD+G data such as lyrics and graphics present on some CDs may be ignored by ripping software, preventing an identical backup and recreation of the original CD.

The term has been adopted to refer to audio extraction/duplication, though this use of the term is not litteraly accurate.

The term RIP, as it pertains to data manipulation, originally refered to Raster Image Processing A raster image processor (RIP) is a component used in a printing system which produces a bitmap. The bitmap is then sent to a printing device for output. The input may be a page description in a high-level page description language such as PostScript, Portable Document Format, XPS or another bitmap of higher or lower resolution than the output device. In the latter case, the RIP applies either smoothing or interpolation algorithms to the input bitmap to generate the output bitmap.

Raster image processing is the process and the means of turning vector digital information such as a PostScript file into a high-resolution raster image.

Originally RIPs were a rack of electronic hardware which received the page description via some interface (eg RS232) and generated a "hardware bitmap output" which was used to enable or disable each pixel on a real-time output device such as an optical film scanner.

A RIP can be implemented either as a software component of an operating system or as a firmware program executed on a microprocessor inside a printer, though for high-end typesetting, standalone hardware RIPs are sometimes used. Ghostscript and GhostPCL are examples of software RIPs. Every PostScript printer contains a RIP in its firmware.


In the first line is say Copying, not moving.

Answer 2

No, it takes the songs from the cd and transfers them to ur computer. It just copies the music off. It doesn't effect the cd.

Answer 3

No! You don't alter the original CD at all. You are just transferring the music to a file etc..

Answer 4

no it puts the music on the computer but it is still on the cd

Answer 5

Yes, there is a laser in your computer that completely cuts out the section of the CD that has the song on it. Be careful that you don't put your hand in there!

Answer 6

No, you are just copying (ie. "ripping off") the music from the CD to transfer to another disk.

Answer 7

no it just copys the music from the cd

Answer 8

no you are just copig music from the cd

Answer 9

absolutly not, riping is just copying the music from a CD to your computer.

Answer 10

no, it just copys the song plus the album information to your hard drive