What is the difference between "Rip" and "burn" when using a cd?

Answer 1

Most music programs like iTunes and Windows Media offer both of these features, so this should relate to all of them.

Rip = means to put the music files from the CD onto your computer's hard drive. For instance when you load a CD into your computer using iTunes or Windows Media player and you want to add the music to your "Library" you choose, Rip. This will take the music from the CD and "Rip" it to your hard drive.

Burn = means to take the music files from your computer, and record them on to a blank CD. So when you select the music files that you want to put on a blank CD you would use the "Burn" option to record the music to the blank disc.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Ripping a CD involves copying the music from the CD itself to the media player on your computer. This function places the music on the CD into a MP3 file. As an MP3 file, the songs can be played through your computer. You can then burn the files to another CD.
Burn a CD/The reverse action of ripping a CD is burning a CD. To burn a CD, you simply move, or burn, the files from the computer to a blank CD. Make a folder of the songs or video you want, and add the folder to your media player to burn the CD.

Answer 3

Rip And Burn Cd

Answer 4

Ripping a CD is taking information off of the CD and putting it on your computer. Burning is putting the information from your computer onto the CD.

Answer 5

Rip is when you copy songs off of a CD and the songs are stored into your computer library.

Burn is when you insert a blank CD (rewritable) into your computer and "burn" the songs onto the CD from your computer library.

Hope I helped!

Answer 6

ok i dont know much on this subject, a techno geek may come up with a better answer:

so heres wikipedia's answer it beats all geeks answers!!! haha

Ripping:

(also referred to as digital audio extraction) 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.

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


BURNING:

To create an optical disc, one usually first creates a disk image with a full file system designed for the optical disc, and then burns the image to the disc. The disc image is a single file, built and stored on the hard drive, which contains the entire information to be contained on the disc.

Answer 7

The term "Rip" is used when you are getting tracks from a CD and saving them on your computer. "Burn" is when you take files (tracks) from your computer and save them on a blank CD.