How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable?
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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Christ do I feel old now. CDs and DVDs are read only, so you won’t do anything to them by ripping them. It’s just a copy of the data onto your drive and then probably a compression step of some sort. Nowadays it probably takes less than five minutes for the whole thing. I remember taking at least half an hour on a 2x drive, and then mp3 compression taking another hour or so.
Holy shit, a 2x drive. I forgot that once was a cutting edge thing.
How else were ya gonna play 7th Guest? With a 1x?!? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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We had a 1x but it was too slow for the new game we bought, Phantasmagoria. Instead of buying a new drive, my father picked up this terrible software that would write portions of the data to the hard drive when the game bogged down. It kind of worked but only after you went through it once, so whoever played the game after you got a smoother experience.
That's really cool! It's a good example of what i like to think of as "transitional tech"--stuff that did the job, but as tech continued to evolve their usefulness phased out.
Or Wing Commander III, with its ludicrous 4 CD's. 😱
Anyone remember the Kenwood TrueX drives? I was so in love with mine for a while, but it wasn't always supported.
I lived in a non-anglophone country when those were a thing, how do you pronounce that? "Twice" drive? "Two ex" drive? "Double speed" drive?
You got no luck with me, I am not a native English speaker. In English I would call this "two ex" but now that I think of it in German we would say "two times", or at least thats what I and my friends called it.
Both of those are fine. As a native English speaker I literally say both of those depending on my mood.
I'm an American, I would say two ex drive.
"Double speed" and "two ex" both work, however it's much, much more common to say "two ex" because of the fact that a lot of modern disc drives can read up to 52x for CDs.
It can still easily take hours if it's a whole movie you're copying and you're transcoding it into a more space-efficient codec.