Need to learn how to use different CD media

[Bubey]

I am new at this and would like to learn the
differences between burning and ripping.
Differences between types of blank CD's and
CD-ROM's (-r & +r), etc.
I have some music CD's that are sets of 2 or 3
disc's and I tried to put them all onto a CD -r
disk so I wouldn't have so many disc's in the car,
but my program or hardware wouldn't let me do
it???
Any help would be appreciated............Thanks !

I am using a Dell Inspirion E1505 w/XP Media
Edition
and Sonic DigitalMedia LE v7 for copying CD's.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Burn
Term used to describe the action of creating a CD or other recordable disc.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/burn.htm

Short for ripping, rip is a term used to describe the process of taking data
off of a CD or other disc and either storing it on the computer and/or
putting it onto another CD or disc.
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/r/rip.htm

CD Definitions
http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/cd.htm

In addition to playing CDs, you can use the Windows Media Player to copy
(rip) and create (burn) CDs.

Open WMP, click on Help, click the Search tab, type: rip into the box and
click on List Topics.

Click on whatever topic and read all about it.

You may need to copy from the CD to your hard disk first and then burn to
another CD.

Or look at Sonic DigitalMedia LE v7 HELP. RTFM.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Ken Blake, MVP]

I am new at this and would like to learn the
differences between burning and ripping.

Ripping is creating a digital computer file from an audio CD (or other audio
source).

Burning is writing a digital file (audio or other) to a CD

Differences between types of blank CD's and
CD-ROM's (-r & +r), etc.

-R and +R refer to DVDs, not CDs.

I have some music CD's that are sets of 2 or 3
disc's and I tried to put them all onto a CD -r
disk so I wouldn't have so many disc's in the car,
but my program or hardware wouldn't let me do
it???

What you are calling a CD-R must have been a DVD-R. Does your computer have
a DVD burning drive installed? Does it have DVD-burning software installed?

Even if you created such a DVD, could your car's CD player play it? Probably
not.

 

[Bubey]

Thanks Ken, I think that was my confusion. I was
able to store Pictures, and
Documents on the DVD disc, which was nice because
of the 4.7gb of space rather than the old 700 mb
disc. So I thought I could do the same with the
music files since the other worked.

Is Pictures, Documents and Movies the only thing I
can use the DVD disks for?

So is Ripping and Burning really one in the same,
just a different way to do
each ? Would you recommend using my XP Media
edition, Sonic LE 7, or
ITunes do make music copies ?

Thanks again for your help.

"Ken Blake, MVP"
message

I am new at this and would like to learn the
differences between burning and ripping.

Ripping is creating a digital computer file from
an audio CD (or other audio
source).

Burning is writing a digital file (audio or other)
to a CD

Differences between types of blank CD's and
CD-ROM's (-r & +r), etc.

-R and +R refer to DVDs, not CDs.

I have some music CD's that are sets of 2 or 3
disc's and I tried to put them all onto a CD -r
disk so I wouldn't have so many disc's in the
car,
but my program or hardware wouldn't let me do
it???

What you are calling a CD-R must have been a
DVD-R. Does your computer have
a DVD burning drive installed? Does it have
DVD-burning software installed?

Even if you created such a DVD, could your car's
CD player play it? Probably
not.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Thanks Ken,

You're welcome. Glad to help.

I think that was my confusion. I was
able to store Pictures, and
Documents on the DVD disc, which was nice because
of the 4.7gb of space rather than the old 700 mb
disc. So I thought I could do the same with the
music files since the other worked.

Yes, you can.

Is Pictures, Documents and Movies the only thing I
can use the DVD disks for?

No, you store *files* on the DVD. What kinds of files they are are
completely irrelevant. The burning software doesn't care and doesn't even
look to see what kinds of files they are.

However, you wanted to use the disk in your car CD player. Your car CD
player will almost certainly not recognize a DVD.

Your confusion seems to over CDs and DVDs. Although these look very much the
same, they are not.

So is Ripping and Burning really one in the same,
just a different way to do
each ?

No, not at all. They are almost the exact *opposite* of each other. Read
what I said again:

"Ripping is creating a digital computer file from an audio CD (or other
audio source).

"Burning is writing a digital file (audio or other) to a CD

Ripping takes music *from* a CD. Burning puts music (or other files) *on* a
CD.

Would you recommend using my XP Media
edition, Sonic LE 7, or
ITunes do make music copies ?

I have no familiarity with any of those, so I can't make a recommendation.