Ripping CD ????

[masjana.liza]

Anybody please clear me with what is ripping a Cd. As far as i know it is converting ths audio songs of a CD into a format compatible to be played in PC. Is it really so?? Please correct me if i am wrong . Thank you in advance

[venney]

Ripping a cd essentially is converting a cd to audio files. You can also 'rip' the cd to a smaller size, reducing quality.

[icecube]

To add to Venny's comment

Most music CD's use the .wav formate which holds every bit of data possible from the recording. It's hard to get more than 20 songs on a CD with this format.

Ripping a CD is a way of reducing the size of the file without sacrificing a lot of quality.

If the speakers you play your music on cost less than $60 apiece, you probably couldn't detect a difference.

The big advantage to ripping music from .wav format to .mp3 is storage and fast Internet transmission. Instead of 20 songs on a CD, you can get 200-300 songs. The drawback is that these CD's can't be read by a car's stereo system.

So if you have 20 mp3's that you want to play on the car CD player, you rip them back to .wav and burn them to CD. I have heard that some newer model cars will play mp3's. I haven't seen one yet.

[venney]

Hey icecube. My car cd player plays mp3 cds
Its great, you can have about 9 albums or so on a cd!!