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LAME and EAC so slow...

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enwar3

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so i have Exact Audio Encoder and use LAME 3.96 to encode my music, and its taking forever. it takes 10 min or so totally, with a read speed of only 8-9x. this is slower than my 1.8ghz P4. i set all the settings the same and stuff, am i missing something?

ask for specs or EAC settings and ill be happy to provide em.
 
ive never had a drive rip a song faster then that

actually it has always doen 2x till about 50% and then finishes the rest in 2 seconds on every comp ive ever used it on

i thought it was normal
 
i just checked, at its actually only 7.3x tops. this comp (P4) has an old (2-3 years) Lite-On drive and still dows 9x pretty easily. is it something with the settings in the software?
 
eac does things slower and maybe twice and compares checksums. this is what takes the time, i am sure the encoding goes faster. that is why it is called exact audio copy and not fast audio copy. this is normal, even when i would run on plextor scsi roms, eac would always be slow, but there was never any problems with the quality of the encoded audio, it was always perfect.
 
I ripped 1,000 CDs at 10 minutes per on my 1.3 GHz music server, it's painless if you do it on a second PC or if you do it while studying or other non-computer activities.

Plus I walked to college 1.5 miles through the snow in winter! You don't know how easy you gots it sonny! : shakes cane :
 
its limited by your drives capabilities to rip in secure mode or whatever error detection funkiness it uses. its always been that way. other programs can rip much faster because they don't do such things, its been a long time since we've been cpu limited here.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
I ripped 1,000 CDs at 10 minutes per on my 1.3 GHz music server, it's painless if you do it on a second PC or if you do it while studying or other non-computer activities.

Plus I walked to college 1.5 miles through the snow in winter! You don't know how easy you gots it sonny! : shakes cane :
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you forgot it was up hill both ways 😀
 
Originally posted by: bob4432
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
I ripped 1,000 CDs at 10 minutes per on my 1.3 GHz music server, it's painless if you do it on a second PC or if you do it while studying or other non-computer activities.

Plus I walked to college 1.5 miles through the snow in winter! You don't know how easy you gots it sonny! : shakes cane :
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you forgot it was up hill both ways 😀
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And in those days, gravity was even stronger, and folks were built stronger than kids these days! Dad-gam younguns!


On the subject of rip speed - ripping a disc shouldn't really be done with speed in mind, I think. I mean, ok, 2x would be a bit slow. But it is called Exact Audio Copy for a reason - if the software doesn't think it's getting a good read, it'll slow down and try to get it right.
Set it to rip a disc, then open Task Manager and set the EAC process to low priority, and do something else awhile.
It's not like you have to rip your entire collection every day, anyway.

And I'll put the obligatory plug in for FLAC now too. Lossless audio compression. If you've got lots of hard drive space just sitting around waiting for a use, and if you're mildly obsessive about not losing data quality, FLAC is for you. 🙂

If you're sticking with MP3, then might I recommend MP3Gain for when you're done with the ripping and converting. It'll normalize all your MP3s to the same volume without quality reduction. MP3Gain makes the volume changes, and stores undo information in each MP3 file, so you can always undo the volume adjustment without quality loss.
 
EAC has a lot of wacky settings which you have to get just right in order to maximize speed (while maintaining quality). Therefore, it's probably a software settings issue. Try ripping CDs with a basic program like dbPowerAmp, and see what kind of speeds you get.

Although I'm betting it's the software, it could be a hardware issue. Are you using a different CD drive than before? If so, are you sure it's not causing the problem?

EDIT: I should add that my Sempron 64 @ 2.4 GHz & NEC ND-1100A doesn't get much faster than 6x or 7x, either. Your "problem" sounds completely normal. The only thing I don't understand is how you managed faster rips on your P4 1.8. I'm guessing you originally had EAC set to rip as quickly as possible, without double-checking for errors.
 
o well then it is normal, as i thought, i just tested it again here, and it doesnt get above 5x on either drive, compression is fast as hell tho
 
noooooooooooooooo lol

heres something i found interesting: when i choose LAME from the drop-down menu of which encoders to use, it writes it to hard disk in waveform - which happens really fast - scans at 15x, but u cant really listen in waveform and its like 700mb a disk. when i pick "external compressor" from teh menu and choose LAME, then it goes in mp3, but pretty slow, at 7x.
 
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