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Title: Ripping CD to MP3 horridly slow
Post by: czbill on December 21, 2017, 05:18:19 pm

Had bought Media Center 23 a month ago to rip some compilations as birthday present,
but ripping to MP3 turned to be deathly slow - a 15 second intro took literally minutes to rip.
I thought there might be a problem with the Media Center, so bought the MP3 encoder for my old Jukebox - still slow.
Installed the recent update, still slow.
I swapped antivirus software to Avira in case that was interfering (people on the blog seemed to be happier with it) -
still hasn't helped  :'(

Best,Bill

Title: Re: Ripping CD to MP3 horridly slow
Post by: JimH on December 22, 2017, 12:27:10 am

Please describe your setup.

Possibilities:

Antivirus (still)

Problem with a drive

Destination disk full

Network problem if destination is slow

USB 3.0 drive on a USB 2.0 connection

Windows updates have lately been flaky.

Try ripping to WAV.  That requires no encoding.

Try other CD's.

Title: Re: Ripping CD to MP3 horridly slow
Post by: czbill on December 22, 2017, 02:35:57 am

Avira antivirus (uninstalled Malwarebytes)
Gigabytes of free space
Destination is local - simple CD to main drive.
Whole purpose is to make MP3's, so WAV not an option.
Matshita CD Drive didn't show problems with playing, but trying a generic disk imaging program has similar slowness, so either I figure out what's wrong w CD software or get an external USB 3.0 :-(

THanks

Title: Re: Ripping CD to MP3 horridly slow
Post by: Matt on December 22, 2017, 09:38:46 am

And remember that ripping in secure mode is slower because we read every sector twice and give a report at the end.

Switch out of that mode if speed is critical.