4 Jul
2003
4 Jul
'03
6:11 a.m.
Hi,
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...)
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".
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