wrote in message
oups.com
While I wasn't looking, someone slipped a new term into
the hifi lingo - "rip" as in copying something from some
source media.

Exactly what does it mean, what media is referenced and
what is its history?

ripping is the process extracting bit-perfect digital audio
data directly from audio CDs.

The term was *old* when I first learned of it, which was in
the mid-late '90s.