Ripping MP3s

[doanster]

For some reason, everytime I rip music from CDs with iTunes, my computer slows right down to a crawl when I try to do other things. What's goin on?

My specs: 3700+ clawhammer, 1GB TCCD, DFI Lanparty UT NF3 250GB, etc etc.

Could it be because my processor is not dual-core?

 

[Pabster]

CD/DVD drive in PIO mode rather than DMA?

 

[SparkyJJO]

the PIO mode would be my guess. That, or crappy software 😛
I actually don't know much about iTunes really but I wasn't too impressed after looking at it on my roommate's computer.

 

[doanster]

Don't diss iTunes... I'm a Mac and PC and UNIX guy all rolled into one 😛

All my optical drives are in DMA mode. This sucks 🙁

 

[Pabster]

Are you running iTunes 7.x or a previous version?

 

[doanster]

I am using iTunes 6.0.4.2.
Does it make a difference?

 

[gramboh]

Assuming you are in Windows just grab EAC (Exact Audio Copy) lightweight and won't bog your CPU like iTunes bloatware. If you are on a MAC this shouldn't be happening, I find iTunes brutally slow in Windows environment.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: doanster
I am using iTunes 6.0.4.2.
Does it make a difference?

No, but there have been a lot of people reporting issues with 7.x which includes slow CD ripping, that is why I asked.

To be honest I've never had any trouble, though I rarely import CD's in to iTunes.

 

[Kelnoen]

Originally posted by: gramboh
Assuming you are in Windows just grab EAC (Exact Audio Copy) lightweight and won't bog your CPU like iTunes bloatware. If you are on a MAC this shouldn't be happening, I find iTunes brutally slow in Windows environment.

Second for EAC.

 

[oynaz]

Agreed. Itunes is very sluggish in general.

 

[0roo0roo]

quality tests showed the itunes mp3 encoder to be inferior to lame so i'd just use eac+lame instead.
and yes pio mode

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: oynaz
Agreed. Itunes is very sluggish in general.

QFT

When I rip from Itunes it rips at 9x speed. When I use AudioGrabber (my choice of ripping SW) I can rip way past 20x.

 

[Chunkee]

lame does a nice job, cdex..dunno if they have that for mac though

jC

 

[Operandi]

Originally posted by: Kelnoen

Originally posted by: gramboh
Assuming you are in Windows just grab EAC (Exact Audio Copy) lightweight and won't bog your CPU like iTunes bloatware. If you are on a MAC this shouldn't be happening, I find iTunes brutally slow in Windows environment.

Second for EAC.

Third for EAC + LAME.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: oynaz
Agreed. Itunes is very sluggish in general.

QFT

When I rip from Itunes it rips at 9x speed. When I use AudioGrabber (my choice of ripping SW) I can rip way past 20x.

well not sluggish in ripping. but in general it eats a lot of memory and isn't snappy. once it gets around to a task its not a problem, but it will eat a chunk of resources while donig it. i still use it as my jukebox player. but for a quick click on an mp3 ...i use winamp. will probably matter less once we get quad core😉

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: Operandi

Originally posted by: Kelnoen

Originally posted by: gramboh
Assuming you are in Windows just grab EAC (Exact Audio Copy) lightweight and won't bog your CPU like iTunes bloatware. If you are on a MAC this shouldn't be happening, I find iTunes brutally slow in Windows environment.

Second for EAC.

Third for EAC + LAME.

:thumbsup:

 

[theslickvik]

Originally posted by: oynaz
Agreed. Itunes is very sluggish in general.

Doanster just got Powned

 

[151528]

Wierd, i only have a fairly low end PC, and i can usually do some other things, like play music, and and some crappy flash game whilest i import music, and i have the same version of itunes as you, just as i got a small net download limit and i cbf to get the new one.