Good evening Gentlemen and Ladies,

We all agree on the terms, that ripping is getting the files off an audio CD 
or DVD and maybe this includes tapes and records and saves them usually in a 
compressed format on the hard drive.

Burning is taking this material and copying it to a CD or DVD disk in which 
the copy process actually melts the vinyl to save the data.  The laser burns 
the data to the disk and so if you make a mistake on a regular CD there is 
no way to salvage it, thus you have a coaster to protect your table.  Make 
sure you mark this bad disk or throw it away to save frustration at trying 
to figure out what it was.

Have a great day,

Paul Bolduc

Amateur Radio Operator: WR1X
Email: [log in to unmask]

Located in the only town named Royalston in North America and maybe even the 
world!
Royalston is located in Massachusetts