May 15, 2003

rip

v.

1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD. Software that does this is often called a CD ripper.

2. [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a program that they have been compiled/assembled into, or which generates them at run-time. In the case of older Amiga games this entails searching through memory shortly after a reboot. This sense has been in use for many years and probably gave rise to the (now more common) sense 1.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:32 AM

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