My 24x10x40 burner is taking over 10 minutes to rip a song from a cd into a mp3 and other misc probs

[fooshkee]

Hey I got the cendyne 24x10x40 cdrw.... I was hoping for a lite-on.... but its the Verbatim version(which i think is basically a rebadged liteon)
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I finally got it burning decently, allthough it burns much faster when the DMA is turned off, which is strange... and its taking about 5ish minutes per cd which I think should be a bit faster for a 24x burner...

But the main problem is..... When I try to rip cd's into mp3's it takes like OVER 10 minutes per song.... it took me over 2 hours to rip one single cd. Thats crazy! I can't figure out at all how to get it rip at decent times...

The only thing I can think of is that my computer is really old, its a 450mhz with 64 meg of ram (piece of junk, but i'm upgrading soon).... I know the computer is slow, and that might effect the ripping some, but I can't imagine the slowness making a cd rip take over 2 hours.

I'd really appreciate some help here.. thanks alot.

 

[fooshkee]

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[fooshkee]

bump yet again... someone help!

 

[nealh]

wHAT SOFTWARE ARE YOU USING TO BURN THE MP3..IS IT CONVERTING THE MON THE FLY TO .WAV FILES IF SO THIS WILL SLOWDWON THE BURN..(sorry for the caps..I was playing a game and forgot caplock was on)..and the slower the cpu the longer this will take...

what media are you using..even though the liteon will burn max on almost any media..if it is taking 5 min or so this is the speed roughly for 16x burn..so your media maybe the problem....

what chipset are you using..via or intel..if via..update the 4n1s and consider the 3.14 miniport drivers and activate dma...

also is your cdrw set as master or slave??

 

[fooshkee]

Um to rip the mp3 from a cd I have been using CDex... but its slow in musicmatch and audiograbber too.... I think it doing on the fly wav to mp3...... that goes at about 2x max.... I tried ripping it right to a wav and that was 14xish.... can't figure out why the mp3 rip is so slow... probably my crappy computer

I am running a via chipsit with amd I think.... think the cdrw is a master... would it be smarter to have it as a slave? thanks for the help man...

 

[Jeomite]

i highly recommend you get Exact Audio Copy with LAME codec. (LAME is the fastest MP3 Encoder and provides the best quality results too!)

Exact Audio Copy LINKIE
-forgot the LAME site, but search for it =]

 

[WarCon]

I second EAC and lame. The difference in audio quality is actually noticable. It still may take a while though, most likely from only 64megs.

 

[nealh]

No you want the cdrw if possible set as a master...

also make sure you have a good ide cable to cdrw some have had problems from this

As I said if it is a via chip set consider the 3.14 miniport drivers and new 4n1's if appriopriate for your mobo

Also does your mobo have the latest bios revision??