Why can't I rip CD's faster

[Trauma1]

I just bought a 52x CD-RW (52x24x52x). I'm using Music matchbox 7.5 to rip CDs to MP3s on my HD, but it only goes about 8-10x at best. Whats the deal. What are the best settings to use to get faster ripping speeds. Is it limited by the software I'm using or can CDroms only rip audio at lower speeds than they read data CDs. How fast are other people able to rip at? What is the rate limiting factor: the software, the CD drive, the sound card, or CPU? Also am I supposed to turn on the DAE on the CD drive to rip (is that better or worse). Any recommendations appreciated (I wanna rip about 200 CDs).
BTW running Athlon XP 1900+ on MB with KT266A chipset
512meg PC2100
Sound Blaster Audigy
Radeon 9700 Pro

 

[bjc112]

What burner..

I know lite-on does Digital Audio Extraction at 24x.

 

[bjc112]

Welcome to the forums!

 

[stncttr908]

It would be do to the processing power that is used to encode the mp3's on the fly. Try ripping wav files, I'm sure that will be lightning fast.

 

[FishTankX]

Musicmatch purposley limits ripping speeds on unregistered/unpaidfor versions.

Paying their upgrade fee would probably increase your speed quite a bit.

 

[FishTankX]

Also: Is DMA enabled on the CDROM?

 

[stncttr908]

Not really FishTank, I've used Easy CD-DA on a similar system, and while encoding to 192bps on a 1800+ I would max out around 10-12x.

 

[gtd2000]

My LiteOn DVD ROM will rip mp3's at speeds of upto x24+ I think? Thats using MMJB to rip and encode.

I should really do a test to make sure.

My CDRW will only do 8-12 though.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

If you're going to be ripping 200 CDs, use EAC and LAME. OGG if you like your music free, MP3 if you just don't care. And use VBR, for goodness sakes.

Which is the best program to rip Audio CDs?
What is the best program (encoder) for making MP3s?

- M4H

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: stncttr908
It would be do to the processing power that is used to encode the mp3's on the fly. Try ripping wav files, I'm sure that will be lightning fast.

I have an XP1800+ and Lite-ON 16x48x DVD-ROM and get ripping speeds up to around 18x with Real Jukebox. Have you tried using a different program? Or is there a setting to increase CPU usage?

Jamie

 

[tkdkid]

I only get about 2.2x or so in mmjb. But that's with the highest possible settings - it does end up sounding a lot better though.

 

[Dulanic]

It's mostly variable on your CDROM.... my Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM would rip up to 45x using MMJB. However now I use EAC and it is slower (6-18X if the CD is not scratched at all) but it sounds much better.

 

[loafbred]

Try CDex - it's free and very adjustable. My Lite On 52-24-52 rips a three minute song to 192 Kbps in a few seconds with it ( I haven't timed it, but it's very quick). Before you rip a song, find the options menu and change audio to VBR, set the bitrate, and leave everything else at defaults. Right click on the track you want to rip, rename it, then convert it.

Here's the link to CDex

 

[Fiz1]

Originally posted by: FishTankX
Also: Is DMA enabled on the CDROM?

 

[alexruiz]

I also use MMJ, but I rip to wav, then I convert to MP3 using lame (sorry, no fancy settings, just a plain CBR 224). Ripping MP3 my DVD Rom stalls at 16x (LTD-163D), but the CD-RW (LTR-52246S) goes as high as 32x. Ripping wav the DVD can go as high as 36x, and the CD-RW can peak at 48x..... My other burner, a BTC 5224IM rips even faster than the Lite-On (peaks at 50x aprox and reachs the peak quicker). Obviously, all speeds are ripping to wav.

I am going to try CDEx

 

[Pauli]

Technically, you are ripping AND encoding the resulting WAV file to MP3 format. Try just ripping with no encoding and see how fast that is.

 

[nikko]

Originally posted by: Trauma1
I just bought a 52x CD-RW (52x24x52x). I'm using Music matchbox 7.5 to rip CDs to MP3s on my HD, but it only goes about 8-10x at best. Whats the deal. What are the best settings to use to get faster ripping speeds. Is it limited by the software I'm using or can CDroms only rip audio at lower speeds than they read data CDs. How fast are other people able to rip at? What is the rate limiting factor: the software, the CD drive, the sound card, or CPU? Also am I supposed to turn on the DAE on the CD drive to rip (is that better or worse). Any recommendations appreciated (I wanna rip about 200 CDs). BTW running Athlon XP 1900+ on MB with KT266A chipset 512meg PC2100 Sound Blaster Audigy Radeon 9700 Pro

the only source you need for ripping and encoding

 

[billyjak]

I get 30x to 45x in musicmatch with the same setup as yours.
You need to register to get these speeds.
I'm using a 48x24x48x16x Samsung combo