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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: twriter on May 11, 2004, 02:05:45 pm

Title: Slow CD ripping
Post by: twriter on May 11, 2004, 02:05:45 pm

I've long found Media Center (and before that, Media Jukebox), to rip slower than other software, but I've stuck with (and bought new versions) because MC is so much better in so many other ways. But MC 10 (10.0.129 now, with similar behavior in a number of previous release versions) seems to rip really, really slowly, about 20-30 minutes per CD.

Rip speed is set to max.

I have 2 drive. One is a CDRW/DVDRW drive. The thing is, i can't figure out what the max speed of my drive is (nowhere in the specs do I see it). WinXP reports it as an HP DVD Writer 300n.

The other drive is an Asus 48x CD-ROM drive.

In both, when I rip a CD, MC10 reports rip at between 2x and 3x, maxing out at about 2.7x.

As far as the rest of the specs:
WinXP, well patched.
2.6 GHz P4
512MB RAM

Ripping to lowest quality VBR MP3 files.

Title: Re:Slow CD ripping
Post by: JimH on May 11, 2004, 02:28:56 pm

Try a search here and on google for "PIO".

It isn't MC.  It's Windows.

Title: Re:Slow CD ripping
Post by: LonWar on May 11, 2004, 02:30:51 pm

Do you have any virtual Drive software loaded?

Title: Re:Slow CD ripping
Post by: JohnT on May 12, 2004, 08:45:22 am

Just to see what your "raw" rip speed is in MC, try ripping to uncompressed wave format and make sure the ripping mode is "Normal", not "Secure".  Also uncheck "analyze during rip". Let us know the speed you get.