In an earlier version of MJ, when you ripped a CD, it would
first copy the CD to disk, and then it would encode to MP3
simultaneously while it copied the next track. Sometime
around the switch to version 8, this went away. Now you
have two choices:
1) if you pick the "Rip and encode simultaneously" option,
then it encodes to MP3 as it reads the track from the CD.
This significantly slows down the read from the CD (to about
1x! horribly slow!)
2) if you uncheck that option, then it copies the CD to disk
as fast as the CD player can go, but then it stops reading the
CD while it encodes the track (again, very slow).
Is there any way to get back the option where it would continue
on to read the next track, while simultaneously doing the encode?
The encode could be spawned off as a separate thread, so it
happens in the background.
This would significantly speed up ripping and encoding, especially
for high bit rates that encode quite slowly. Yeah, I know, I
could get a faster machine (this one is 733 MHz) but this would
still speed things up for a 2GHz CPU.