[G4] iTunes Speed/Performance Feedback

[Snoke Jay S NPRI]

sheesh. can't we find more petty things to argue about? 
once upon a time and long before one could burn CDs or rip music files, you could rip cloth. then we learned we could rip paper, when it was invented.
;o)

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> From: 	Bryan Wiggins
> Reply To: 	Power Macintosh G4 List
> Sent: 	Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:10 PM
> To: 	Power Macintosh G4 List
> Subject: 	Re: [G4] iTunes Speed/Performance Feedback
> 
> 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
> 
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