[CS-FSLUG] CD ripping speeds

[Fred A. Miller]

On Fri March 25 2005 5:33 pm, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 05:12:41PM -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> > > I have been playing with, er, *working* with an old Pentium 200MHz
> > > computer with 64MB RAM.  I installed some ripping software (abcde - no,
> > > really...that is what it is called) and ripped some CD's.  The CDROM is
> > > only 16X but it rips at two or three times the speed of my 32X CDROM on
> > > my much more powerful dual-processor main computer.  I use the same
> > > ripping software and the *identical* settings (I copied the config
> > > file).  Any ideas why a slower CDROM is ripping much faster than a
> > > "faster" CDROM?
> >
> > That defines logic. I assume you've checked the "results" of it's work?
>
> It does.  The "slower" CDROM produces quality .ogg files at the same
> bitrate as the "faster" CDROM.  *Encoding* of the ripped .wav file is
> *much* slower than on the faster machine (as expected).  The difference
> in ripping is scary.

There has to be an answer for all this, and it totally escapes me.

Fred

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