Very slow ripping

hanspb ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Aug 24 08:39:44 UTC 2005


Hi, I also tried to rip a cd with no luck yesterday. after reading a lot
of posts here I found what worked for me and I'd like to share it.



I use Ubuntu 5.04, and first I got a speed of 0.6-0.7x with grip. So I
enabled dma for the cd drive, which at first din't help at all. I then
closed the cd player and disabled autoplay in Gnome. This raised the
speed to about 4-5x. Still not satisfied I disabled all paranoia in
grip (no error detection). Then ripping went like a breeze, with speeds
of up to at least 30x.



My only little concern now is with mp3 encoding, which is slower than I
remember from Windows (iTunes). It lasts several minutes after the
ripping is complete, on Windows they were complete at more or less the
same time.


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hanspb




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