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Title: Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: zajacz3 on September 04, 2004, 12:52:15 pm

Hello on this fine Saturday!

Anybody go advice on how to make my CD drive rip the CDs faster.  This is a brand new Dell machine with combo drive.  I'm only getting about 3.5 rip speed.  My settings are VBR Custom Alt-preset-extreme.  I suspect these settings are contributing to the slow pace of ripping, but I want to use this level of quality.  Any other way to get the CD ripping faster?

Thanks

FrankZ

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: JimH on September 04, 2004, 02:59:58 pm

What happens if you use the default VBR settings?

Some people rip to WAV or APE and then convert the entire batch fo files later.  This is faster.  The conversion can be done overnight.

APE (or any lossless codec) will be faster and higher quality.

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: zajacz3 on September 04, 2004, 08:04:39 pm

Same slow issues with the default VBR.  If I rip a bunch of stuff at APE, can I then convert to a MP3 VBR file in a batch session?  Is that what you're suggesting?  How do I perform the conversion?

fz

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: JimH on September 04, 2004, 08:08:30 pm

Yes.  Try a few before you do too many.

Select the tracks to convert and then choose tools/convert.

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: zajacz3 on September 04, 2004, 08:21:46 pm

Thanks, I give it a try.

fz

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: Sauzee on September 05, 2004, 08:23:47 am

Replace lame.exe in MC directory with a newer version. MC uses as older version of lame which is pretty slow at VBR encoding.

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: zajacz3 on September 05, 2004, 12:33:43 pm

Thanks, great.  Where do I get a newer version of LAME?
fz

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: zajacz3 on September 05, 2004, 01:37:13 pm

Okay, I got the LAME update from http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.html.

At the risk of becoming a real pain, I looked for the lame.exe file in the MC directory and did not find one there.  I'm looking in Program Files/J River/Media Center/.  Is there somewhere else it would be?

fz

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: Sauzee on September 05, 2004, 01:39:45 pm

It's in Program Files/J River/Media Center/Plugins. Please let us know if you notice a change in ripping speed.

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: zajacz3 on September 05, 2004, 02:28:47 pm

Yeah, I did a search on the directory and found (Duh!).  I'll let you know.  Incidentally, there are two lame appliction files.  One has a the .dll extension (dynamic link library), the other has no extension.  I'm going to add the .exe extention before plopping it in the plugins directory.  Make sense to you?  I'll put the lame.dll in there too, though I don't see a lame.dll in the plugin directory currently.  (I'll of course move/save the current lame.exe file just in case).

fz

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: zajacz3 on September 05, 2004, 02:42:05 pm

Yahoo!  Ripping speed has increased to 5X, when before it never got higher than 3.4x.  That's a significant increase for me.

The lame encoder (lame.exe and lame.dll placed in the plugins folder) seems to working just fine.  I'm going to do some sampling and listening and will report if I find anything negative.

Thanks very much.

fz

Title: Re:Ripping speed of CD Drive
Post by: Sauzee on September 06, 2004, 12:05:18 am

Good news. ;D

JRiver Guys - how about updating the version of lame you use?  You get almost double the ripping speed and it sounds great too. ;)