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[nickharambee]

can anyone tell me if there is a difference in the recording quality that i would get from an audio cd recorder and a cd-rom drive on a computer.  i guess it depends on the type of recorder and the type of cd-rom drive.  what is the general opinion on this though, and in terms of quality of copy what spec should i be looking for from my cd-rom drive/audio recorder.  i have been using a dedicated audio cd recorder (pioneer pdr-509) for quite a while, but now i am getting to like the advantages of using my computer (speed, media library etc.).  can anyone help?

[Charlemagne 8]

Ripping to a wav format (basically what a CD recorder uses) would be substantially faster with a computer as the fastest CD recorder I've seen was 4x. Encoding to any other format other than APE would still be very time-consuming. You can rip and encode simultaneously with APE about as fast as a rip to wav with a file size of 50% of wav.
Downsides would be you would still have to encode to MP3 for any computer that doesn't have an APE player and would need to convert back to WAV to burn a CD that could be played on a standard CD player. When your CD recorder was done, you would already have the latter.
Faster or slower? Try it and decide.
CVIII

[kiwi]

With MC, you can easily transcode from APEs to MP3s, while your asleep.  Just tell it to convert your library.  It will even skip duplicates.  (All the APEs and MP3s must be in the same library for the duplicate stuff.  I'd just create one specifically for that.)

As for quality difference, I have no idea.  You might try one of the Pro forums where people actually working in the business and may have done these tests.

kiwi