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Speed When Ripping MP3s...Question...

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Playmaker

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I've been ripping a lot of MP3s lately with EAC and LAME encoding but I only run at 3.0x which takes quite awhile. I usually use my Aopen 12x10x32 (I believe) CDRW drive. My Pioneer slot loading 16x DVD drives usually only does 2.5x. My question is whether it's my drive that's causing these slow speeds, if it's just like that with the programs I'm using, or if it's the rest of my computer? The DAE for both these drives is listed as much higher then I'm getting, so I'm not sure if an upgrade in drives would help me (looking at a LiteOn 48x24x48 CDRW). I'm running an Epox 8K7A (AMD 761) with a 1.2ghz T-Bird and 512mb PC2100 DDR. Which upgrade would be the smartest to boost my speed, and how much would you think the boost would be? Thanks...
 
I used to have a Creative DVD drive and a Philips CDRW drive. Both were rated 24X CDROM read speed, but the DVD drive would extract audio with EAC at 12-16 speed, and the Philips would only do 3-5 speed. Im not sure why, but it seems to vary from drive to drive. I havent tested it with my Sony DVDRW drive yet.

I would suggest you try playing around with the settings, that may help. Getting the wnaspi32.dll file for your WINNT/System folder helps with DVD ripping, and may be better than the native aspi for Win2K/XP, but dont trust me on that.

Also, make sure you have the drives running in DMA mode.
 
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