Hi, > > Programs like cdparanoia and EAC operate as digital rippers, using the > > cdrom's built in mechanisms to extract the audio data directly. There > > are other programs however (such as cdsound-recorder) that will play the > > disc through your CD drive's built in DAC, and record the sound through > > your soundcards ADC input. Or, you can use a standalone CD player for > > the same effect. > > Wow, I guess that either I have always been mistaken about this, or the > meaing of the word has changed over the years. I always thought that > "ripping" meant getting a byte for byte digital copy, converting the CD > audio format to a soun file format. What you're describing, I always > thought of as "taping". Though I'm not a native english speaker, I would tend to agree with you. Though it was a long time since I last heard the word "taping" (or it's swedish counter part for that matter, incidentally "ripping" doesn't really have a swedish counterpart, as with many "newage" words...) > > So when some in the Linux Audio world talks about, say, ripping samples > from an audio sample CD into wavs, in order to load them into csound (just > picking a likely application), do they mean they made an exact digital > copy, or do they mean they made an analog copy? I always thought it would > mean the former, but am I wrong? This is a quite important distinction, > don't you think? > /Robert
