• Flamekebab@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    I’ve literally never heard anyone use “burn” to refer to extracting data. This thread feels like someone trying to gaslight me.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Don’t worry, I’m old too, and I got you fam.

      Burning is creating disks by etching the data onto the metal disc below the plastic layer, and ripping is extracting the data into a digital format, like an ISO, or in the case of music or video discs, usable media files (often includes a transcode because who uses CD/DVD format anyway?).

      I’ve burned dozens if not hundreds of disks in my day, but haven’t burned anything for years. I most recently ripped my entire DVD and Bluray collection onto my Jellyfin server so I don’t have to deal with those ancient discs that keep getting scratched anymore.