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

fooshkee

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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).
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.

 

jh0sken612

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I have a p2 400 w/ 256RAM, TDK VeloCD 24x10x40
and I rip full Audio CDs to mp3 is no time.
I can also burn, in Nero, mp3s onto an audio CD in about.... 5 minutes top
 

nortexoid

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are u ripping VBR or not?..VBR always takes longer, especially depending on the method employed.

also, since you have DMA off (to increase recording speeds) you've just ruined your ripping and reading speeds....a trade-off of sorts.

the drive should function normally w/ DMA enabled tho - so something is wrong w/ your configuration of the drive is wacked..u using nero (i'd suggest u do).
 

fooshkee

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ripping VBR? Pardon my stupidity... but whats that? I have been ripping cd's with cdex...
I tried using the Nero ripper today, it ripped wav's from a cd at like 14x which is pretty sweet, but the mp3pro(it didnt come with regular mp3 codec) was going at like 1x! wtf?

I think I tried turning the DMA on before and ripping something and it was still going slow... I guess I'll have to try it again though when I get home from work.

I am using Nero... and I don't know what could be wrong with the drive config. I have it set up as a master, maybe some jumpers aren't quite right or something...