Ripping cds and ram space

[Anura]

Will ripping cds into my computer use up ANY ram ? Thank you

[mytechuniverse]

Will ripping cds into my computer use up ANY ram ? Thank you

 

I'm pretty sure it will use your drive cache more so than RAM. Indexing the tracks will use RAM, so it will use some but not much RAM.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

It will use some, yes. The CD ripping software will read tracks of the CD into RAM, then write them onto the hard disk. How much RAM it uses depends on how far behind the disk-writing gets.

[Anura]

First. What is indexing a track mean? Second. What is meant by how far the disk-writing gets. Sorry i feel i have to ask. Thank you

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

When you rip a CD, the music has to be read off the CD and then written on to your hard disk. If the music is read off the CD faster than it can be written on to your hard disk, it is "buffered" in RAM until the hard disk can catch up. If the music is read off the CD much slower than it can be written on the disk, it is buffered in RAM and then written to the disk in chunks, rather than writing tiny segments very often.

[Anura]

When you rip a CD, the music has to be read off the CD and then written on to your hard disk. If the music is read off the CD faster than it can be written on to your hard disk, it is "buffered" in RAM until the hard disk can catch up. If the music is read off the CD much slower than it can be written on the disk, it is buffered in RAM and then written to the disk in chunks, rather than writing tiny segments very often.

 

 

Thanks capn