what´s the meanning of rip in an audio program

Question

Hi. Someone knows what the meanning of rip in an audio program is: press click to star ripping process? Thanks a lot for your answers

Welcome to the forum! - pesta, Aug 21, 2011

Answer 1

"Rip" refers to a function that copies music or video from an original source (like a CD disk or DVD) to a file on the computer or other device. Once the "Rip" is complete, the music or video can be played on the device without need of the original CD or DVD.

Edit:

I'm not sure exactly where the word "Rip" came from, but it's likely that it comes from the common expression "To rip off something from somebody". "Rip off" is idomatic for "Stealing" or "Taking without permission". Whenever you copy something, you must think about any copyright laws that may apply.

More generally, "to extract by force". - samdie, Aug 22, 2011

Answer 2

From etymonline.com:

rip (v.) "tear apart," late 15c., probably of North Sea Germanic origin (cf. Flem. rippen "strip off roughly," Frisian rippe "to tear, rip") or else from a Scandinavian source (cf. Swed. reppa, Dan. rippe "to tear, rip"). In either case, probably imitative of the sound of cloth ripping. Meaning "to move with slashing force" (1798) is the sense in let her rip, Amer.Eng. colloquial phrase attested from 1853. The noun is attested from 1711; rip cord (1909) originally was in ballooning. The verbal phrase rip off "to steal or rob," is first recorded c.1967 in black slang, but rip was prison slang for "to steal" since 1904, and was also used in this sense in 12c. Rip-off (n.) is attested from 1970.

So it seems that rip alone means steal...

Law & Order''s advertising motto is "Ripped from the Headlines". I don't think that they are saying that they steal their plots. - 0074b507, Aug 23, 2011

That would be in the sense of "tear" "Torn from the headlines" - lagartijaverde, Aug 23, 2011

Answer 3

It is the common term for Digital Audio (or Video) Extraction.

It has nothing to do with legality. If you were to obtain permission from the copyright holder to make copies, it would still be called ripping (i.e., extraction).

Ripping can be done legally or illegally. It just depends on whether you have permission to do so.

It most likely developed from the earlier use of the word as used by Amiga programmers to mean "to extract sound or graphics from a program that they have been compiled/assembled into."

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Answer 4

thanks a lot. : D I´ve heard the expression: That´s a rip off, when someone overcharges. Yes it must be the same: copying without permission