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What's a ripper and what can I rip?

Wednesday, 21 February 2001

A ripper is a program that allows you to record audio from a CD or vinyl to your hard drive. By Bella Tu

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What's a ripper and what can I rip?
Ripping is also referred to as Digital Audio Extraction (DAE). Depending on your operating system (platform) CD ripping software will record the CD audio (.CDA) tracks to WAV format (eg. Windows) or AIFF (eg. Macintosh). It is usually as simple as inserting a CD into the CD-ROM drive of your computer and selecting the tracks to be recorded to hard drive.

Ripping can also refer to the recording of vinyl records to digital audio. Several ripping programs now incorporate the option to encode recordings to MP3 and other compressed audio formats.

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