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Title: CD Ripping Speeds
Post by: joelava on January 05, 2005, 06:46:44 pm

Why is it that the rip speed is at best 2.0X on my machine? This is an new AMD 939 pin motherboard with a high end processor, 512MB of fast RAM and a combo drive that supports much faster rip rates. Roxio, MusicMatch, and Real Audio crush Media Center but MC does a better job of tagging so I put up with it. Even 4.0-5.0x would be OK. The others push close to 20.0x's
THX

Title: Re: CD Ripping Speeds
Post by: GHammer on January 05, 2005, 08:42:41 pm

I'd love to guess why the speeds are low.

If you post what options you are using for ripping, it makes it easier to help though.

Title: Re: CD Ripping Speeds
Post by: joelava on January 05, 2005, 09:45:53 pm

Encoder: MP3 VBR
Encoder Advanced: High
Quality: High
NO -  Normalize before encoding
Yes - delete temp wave files when encoding is finsished
Yes - Rip and Encode Simultaneously
CD Writer - Plextor DVDR - PX 708A

Thanks again

Title: Re: CD Ripping Speeds
Post by: GHammer on January 05, 2005, 09:57:38 pm

Quote from: joelava on January 05, 2005, 09:45:53 pm

Yes - Rip and Encode Simultaneously

If you encode while ripping it is going to be slower. MP3 encoding is slow as a rule.

Also, are you using Secure or Normal ripping? They also make a difference.

Title: Re: CD Ripping Speeds
Post by: Alex B on January 05, 2005, 10:27:03 pm

What MC version?

Have you seen this thread: V11 slow ripping -- AKA MP3 encoding speed (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=24291.msg169456#msg169456) ?

What is the speed if you rip to uncompressed wave format without MP3 encoding? Is the rip speed about 8-10x in secure mode and 16-24x in normal mode. Something like that should be normal.

Some other MP3 encoding links:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=24615.0 and http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=25356.0