How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable?

Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 76 points –

I've never ripped CDs or DVDs before for any reason and am curious how this works since I have some stuff I wanna see about backing up but am nervous about ruining the disc. I've tried looking this up, but every time I do, I obviously am searching for the wrong thing because I have never found the info I'm looking for.

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I've rarely used CDs/DVDs but AFAIK it's practically just a copy. Your PC can read the CD's data, so it just saves that into a file

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