AtmaWeapon
02-27-2005, 01:51 PM
I like to make copies of my CDs so that when they eventually become unusable I can make something usable out of them. I make two copies: one in lossless Windows Media so I don't get crappy copies when I do need to make them and one in 192 APS MP3, a format that I've seen touted as about the best that MP3 can do.
I've been using CDex (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/) and have been very happy with it up until now. It was always slow ripping CDs on my laptop, but I chalked it up to a stupidly slow system bus because burning and lots of other CD tasks were slow as well.
On my new computer I'm not as convinced. It took WMP something like 2 minutes to convert Cake's Pressure Chief to lossless WMA. That is from the time I put the CD in the tray to the time WMP said it was done. CDex, on the other hand, takes 10-20 minutes to do the same thing.
I understand compressing the MP3 probably takes longer, but that's not where my problem lies. I am ripping the tracks impossibly slow, encoding still runs pretty fast.
I'm tired of waiting and eager to rip a few CDs. What do you guys use? I have a few requirements but they are vital; any program that doesn't give me these features will not do: I must either be able to specify my encoder and pass command-line arguments to the encoder or I must be able to otherwise configure it to 192 APS. It must read CDDB information; I don't like typing all that mess
So what is there anything else that can give me decent ripping speeds?
I've been using CDex (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/) and have been very happy with it up until now. It was always slow ripping CDs on my laptop, but I chalked it up to a stupidly slow system bus because burning and lots of other CD tasks were slow as well.
On my new computer I'm not as convinced. It took WMP something like 2 minutes to convert Cake's Pressure Chief to lossless WMA. That is from the time I put the CD in the tray to the time WMP said it was done. CDex, on the other hand, takes 10-20 minutes to do the same thing.
I understand compressing the MP3 probably takes longer, but that's not where my problem lies. I am ripping the tracks impossibly slow, encoding still runs pretty fast.
I'm tired of waiting and eager to rip a few CDs. What do you guys use? I have a few requirements but they are vital; any program that doesn't give me these features will not do: I must either be able to specify my encoder and pass command-line arguments to the encoder or I must be able to otherwise configure it to 192 APS. It must read CDDB information; I don't like typing all that mess
So what is there anything else that can give me decent ripping speeds?