Ripping

[Bojangles139]

K, i got a new CD-RW, the hi-vi from office max, ends up being a acer?/beng company (loud as heck), but my rip speed is only 4x with EAC. is this unusually slow? my old creative cdrw that is 12x rips at the same speed, i was really hoping for a speed increase, any suggestions? its goin from secondary slave to primary master. or does anybody have a better suggestions?

brandon

 

[Bojangles139]

well, i enabled DMA and not its up to 7x with EAC, anything else i can do?

brandon

P.S. Also, with Nero CD Speed, without DMA, average speed was 11x, with DMA, its an average of 36x. so, why isn't my ripping speeds that high?

 

[ElFenix]

EAC is slow

 

[Bojangles139]

ok, have a better suggestions for ripping then? i used CDex for awhile, then heard EAC is better quality.

brandon

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Bojangles139
ok, have a better suggestions for ripping then? i used CDex for awhile, then heard EAC is better quality.

That's the tradeoff -- EAC is 4-8x but accurate, others are up to 20x with glitches here and there (ticks / pops). Your choice.

 

[Shockwave]

Yeah, I think the best I ever had was on a brand spanking still shiny hot of the press CD on my Toshiba DVD drive which came in at just a hair above 11x, but not continuous. Heck, my Plexy 8x ran an average of 7x, so I would say its not you rdrive that is the problem.
As they have said, you pay for quality. Sometimes in money, sometimes in time. In this instance, your payin in time....

 

[Sid59]

my plextor hits around 10x, sometimes 11x .. secure ..mmm

 

[numark]

Originally posted by: Bojangles139
ok, have a better suggestions for ripping then? i used CDex for awhile, then heard EAC is better quality.

brandon

I like CDex with the default LAME encoder myself. It sounds good to me, though I'm not an audiophile by far.

 

[Bojangles139]

FYI, that hi-vi burner that was sold at Office Max that ended up being an Aopen i believe (4248p serial number), i'm ripping CDs with EAC with averages 'roudn 11x with some tracks up too 17x on the Aerosmith Anthology CD. the trick is just ripp'em into .wav's, then convert'em later. if you convert right away, the drive doesn't get time to spin up and get the good speeds. right now, on track 12, its up top 20x ripping. just let that drive get goin, don't make it stop to convert guys.

brandon

Edit: by the end of the cd, it was up to 22x ripping with and overall average 16.2x. :-0