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Just to keep the time comparisons going... using iTunes on a dual 450 RISC machine, at 224 AAC (with error correction on and the ripping & encoding done as a single step) about 3.5 minutes per album. |
3.5 minutes per ALBUM?! Dang, I knew Macs were faster at multimedia stuff, but not that fast... Ah well. The Athlon FX 64 proved it's worth, giving the G5 a well deserved butt-whooping. Once again, PC's regain their rightful place on the throne.
Anyhoo... EAC is mainly what slows me down, as the fastest I've ever had it ripping is about 5x on a perfect CD. I'm using a 24x/12x/4x CD burner, due to the fact that I know the offsets for it. So even if a CD is perfect, with no scratches, I'm looking at ~15 minutes for a rip of a (700MB) CD.
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It always comes with the "potential slight quality loss" warning. Since it's only "potential" and not even assumed, I use it whenever encoding -aps or -apx (it's not an option for -api). I haven't found any difference in tests. |
Really? Maybe I had something screwed up when I tested. The -fast tag seemed worse (quality wise) to me. Perhaps I'll have to do re-test tonight...
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When I was using a 550MHz Celeron machine I used to rip six or eight CDs to wav using EAC and then encode using RazorLame as a front end to LAME. |
I had a PIII 550MHz, and even ripping one CD bogged it down. Of course, that was with 64MB of RAM, too. Encoding an album on that usually took me, oh, about 30-45 minutes. I remember reading one time about the author of Blade (older MP3 encoder, which was at one point, the best in quality for >=192 KBPS. Below that, it sucked. Badly) saying that on a PII 266 box, he'd leave it running all night to encode one album. Now that's dedication
Finally, I just did a --apfs and --aps test; I couldn't tell the difference. I must have had something messed up big time. Either that or I had the compile optimized only for --aps. However, the --apfs one was about .5MB smaller than the --aps. So presumably more information is being thrown away, if you're the type to worry about that. (like the -k tag... why anyone would worry about 18KHz sounds is beyond me...)
(-:Stephonovich