[G4] iTunes Speed/Performance Feedback

[Bryan Wiggins]

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 14:04 US/Eastern, Kunga wrote:

> Ripping is not burning. Ripping is the process of Converting AIFF 
> files from a commercial audio CD into another digital file format like 
> MP3 or AAC. It is also the converting of any digital format into 
> another. I may rip my MP3 files into AIFF files so I can burn a CD 
> that will play in any audio CD player. I may rip my AAC file that I 
> bought at the Apple iTunes Music Store into AIFF files so I can burn a 
> CD that will play in any audio CD player.
>
> Ripping is the Converting of one digital recording file format to 
> another.

Something that I've always assumed, maybe someone on this list knows 
for sure... Back in the age of the Service Bureau, a machine called a 
Raster Image Processor turned your PostScript lines and fills in to a 
big ole pile of pixels that the imagesetter could expose on film, and 
that process became known as RIPping the file. Is that the origin of 
'ripping' files from a CD, or just coincidence?

Anybody?

Bueller?


--Bryan