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Fast MP3 ripping?

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MidiGuy

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Is there any software (or software setting) that would allow me to rip CD quality tracks from my CDs into MP3 format QUICKLY? Right now, it's going very slowly for me. Windows Media Player rips into the WMA format MUCH more quickly, also at high quality.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

-Midi
 
What speeds are you getting for ripping? how long for say a 3min track @128 or @192? Are you using VBR? What are your system specs, most importantly CD Drive for ripping and CPU. Is DMA enabled?

Jamie
 
It really depends on your CD drive. EAC flies on my NEC 16x DVD drive, but on my LiteOn 40x12x48x CDRW it goes about 3x slower, on the same system, with the same software.

But I agree, EAC is the best thing to use 🙂


Confused
 
I have used both CDex and EAC, but prefer CDex. Using my XP 2000+ with a 16x Liteon DVD drive, I can rip and encode the "average" song to 192kbps MP3s around 20-30 seconds.
 
EAC works very quickly for me..although you can set it up to be friendly with SMP so that may be where some of my gains are coming from. 😉
 
i've been ripping all my CD's at 256 . i haven't timed it , but FreeRip will do a whole disk in under 5 min with the Lite-on DVD drive in my jukebox. i think it's a 16x.
 
If you are looking for pure speed, then MusicMatch (full registered version) rips CD's very fast.
If you are looking for high quality, then anything using the LAME encoder (EAC, CDex, etc) is the way to go.

 
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