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[zevele10]

I got few hundreds cds from a friend.
Because he wants mp3/cds from it ,i do this:
cd to APE - this is fast
APE to OGG for me = this is fast

NOW APE to Lame after trying 3 settings is SO SLOW that i would need until NewYear party to convert it....

Any tips to get still good quality Lame at 192 kps ?
VRB ,CBR or ABR of no importance at this point.
Just speed the goal

[nila]

CBR is alot faster than VBR.

Also, you could try changing the optomisation for speed instead of to quality.

And, as other people have said before, if u use EAC to rip, you can just put all your CD's in and rip them as fast as you can and EAC will keep a backlog of the songs and encode them as it can with you already having finished ripping all the CD's ages before.

[MachineHead]

You're not gonna get much speed on this convert. Lame isn't set up that way. Quality is Lame's strong point, not blazing encoding times.

Do they have to be mp3 for portability?

You could also try alt preset fast extreme. Files are VBR, and not so big that they take up a ton of space on the drive.

[zevele10]

EAC of no help here ,because i ripped all to APE.
To get OGG for me
And mp3 to make mp3cds for the owner of the cds.

If doing only mp3 ,OF CAUSE i would use EAC...

And yes i know that Lame is not fast , but i know also that some settings are faster than others.
And ,as i said i have around 400 cds to convert from APE to Lame.........

This is an HUDGE PLUS concerning OGG = at same quality- if not better- you convert many times faster than to Lame.

Now  ,going to try the  settings you told me--Thank you

[MachineHead]

zevele-

You could also try to convert apes to wav first, in small batches so they don't overflow drives. It would be one less step during a convert.

So in effect you'd be dealing with wav files instead of ape and wav. Might be faster then direct ape to mp3.

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