ripping cd's to mp3, how long?

[QueBert]

Ripped 400 or so CD's all to OGG, this was back way before any portable players were on the market. My car stereo doesn't support OGG and never will, so I decided I'd re-rip them all again to mp3 this time. here's my question I'm using CDEX, with 192 VBR set to high quality.

right now I'm at my GF's house with the cd's I have in my car, they seem to be taking about 20'ish minutes maybe a few more. Her system is a Sempron 3200+ with 2 gigs of memory, ripping from an HP 16x DVD-RW drive. I wouldn't think it would take this long, I have a new C2D E6550 system at home, what kind of improvement should I see if I rip on mine? Right now I got her PC, her sons and her lappy all ripping together so I can get the 40 or so I had in my car done.

Is me expecting 12 minutes with the super high quality settings unrealistic even on a C2D?

thanks n stuff...

 

[Markbnj]

I have a 20x Lite-on drive, takes maybe 2-4 minutes to rip 10-15 tracks @ 320 kbps to mp3s. Previously I had a 16x drive, and it didn't take much longer.

 

[Soundmanred]

I have an old Pentium 4 (1.5 GHz) with a 40X (read) CD-RW and it takes about 2 minutes per CD at 256.

 

[Thump553]

A suggestion-rip them to a lossless format (I prefer FLAC) for permanent storage. When you want to use the files in a personal device that doesn't support FLAC, it's a simple and quick process to rip a MP3 from the FLAC file.

That way you will have audio-perfect copies of your CDs and will never have to rip them again in a few years to match the then current format de jour.

PS: Doing a top quality FLAC rip takes me maybe 15-20 minutes per album.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
I have an old Pentium 4 (1.5 GHz) with a 40X (read) CD-RW and it takes about 2 minutes per CD at 256.

hummm... I knew something was wrong, maybe I should try something besides Cdex, it was taking about 20 or so minutes on all 3 systems. What proggy did you use? I got about 100 more I'm trying to do today and 2, or hell even 5 minutes vs 20 I gotta find a faster method.

 

[tw1164]

Originally posted by: Thump553
A suggestion-rip them to a lossless format (I prefer FLAC) for permanent storage. When you want to use the files in a personal device that doesn't support FLAC, it's a simple and quick process to rip a MP3 from the FLAC file.

That way you will have audio-perfect copies of your CDs and will never have to rip them again in a few years to match the then current format de jour.

PS: Doing a top quality FLAC rip takes me maybe 15-20 minutes per album.

This is what I did, but used WMA Loseless.

 

[QueBert]

ok, Tried Cdex again, apparently it's just butt slow, installed EAC tinkered with it and couldn't seem to get the file output how I liked it wasn't letting me set it to put in in Artist/Album directory. I'm dumb I'm sure it can do it I just didn't want to spend the time. using Audiograbber, FAST but it pops up an external encoding box for each file, kind of annoying since I'm trying to use my system. But I'm ripping almost 10x faster than yesterday, thanks for the suggestions all, even though nobody actually mentioned a program to use, saying the time it was taking y'all helped me try something else, apparently everything is 10x faster tan Cdex 🙂

 

[spyordie007]

I dont know about Cdex, but I use EAC and it's considerably slower (esp. on harder to read disks) than other applications; as I understand it this is because it re-reads a lot of the CD to confirm what it's pulling is accurate. In other words what I'm saying is before throwing out Cdex it might be worth understanding how it works and whether there is a good reason it's taking longer...

I also rip all my CDs to FLAC; I've got a converter program that I use to make a copy in MP3/WMA for portability.

 

[QueBert]

EAC is considerably slower? on my GF's box it was taking like 5 minutes top to do a disc, usually 2-3, well that was the actual cd ripping, encoding it seems to be slow. I thought I was done ripping yesterday (bout 100 disc's) so I decided to uninstall EAC as my GF doesn't like softweare on her box she ain't gonna use. Little did I know it was still coverting the stuff it ripped from WAV to MP3. Needless to say I discovered a few minutes later that all the music I ripped had been deleted. A bit was in the recycle bin but 98% was toast. So here's to another day of ripping the same 100 cd's over haha.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: tw1164

Originally posted by: Thump553
A suggestion-rip them to a lossless format (I prefer FLAC) for permanent storage. When you want to use the files in a personal device that doesn't support FLAC, it's a simple and quick process to rip a MP3 from the FLAC file.

That way you will have audio-perfect copies of your CDs and will never have to rip them again in a few years to match the then current format de jour.

PS: Doing a top quality FLAC rip takes me maybe 15-20 minutes per album.

This is what I did, but used WMA Loseless.

Ditto.

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: tw1164

Originally posted by: Thump553
A suggestion-rip them to a lossless format (I prefer FLAC) for permanent storage. When you want to use the files in a personal device that doesn't support FLAC, it's a simple and quick process to rip a MP3 from the FLAC file.

That way you will have audio-perfect copies of your CDs and will never have to rip them again in a few years to match the then current format de jour.

PS: Doing a top quality FLAC rip takes me maybe 15-20 minutes per album.

This is what I did, but used WMA Loseless.

Ditto.

Ah, I just use Apple's lossless codec.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: JackBurton

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: tw1164

Originally posted by: Thump553
A suggestion-rip them to a lossless format (I prefer FLAC) for permanent storage. When you want to use the files in a personal device that doesn't support FLAC, it's a simple and quick process to rip a MP3 from the FLAC file.

That way you will have audio-perfect copies of your CDs and will never have to rip them again in a few years to match the then current format de jour.

PS: Doing a top quality FLAC rip takes me maybe 15-20 minutes per album.

This is what I did, but used WMA Loseless.

Ditto.

Ah, I just use Apple's lossless codec.

I'd probably use Apple Lossless if I had an iPod and used iTunes. WMAlossless is convenient since it's what WMP/Zune Software use. I like knowing that I can just switch it all over to Apple Lossless without much trouble and no loss in quality if I buy an iPod. 😀