shuttleboi
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I am in the process of ripping my collection of 700 or so CDs to FLAC (using CDEx with the LAME and libFLAC libraries). I buy 99% of my CDs new. The whole process is going slowly.
Questions for you:
1. Do you rip every CD that you buy? I spend much of my time in front of my computer, so getting a good FLAC rip pays off for me, but ripping takes so long that I feel I shouldn't spend the time to rip CDs I probably won't listen to very much. On the other hand, I'm afraid that if I don't rip it, the CD will go onto my shelf of 700 CDs and will never be seen again.
2. Why do some CDs take a long time to rip and encode (e.g. a full rip-and-encode at a rate of 1 song every 2 minutes)? Other CDs can be done at a rate of 1 song every 30 seconds.
3. In Windows, are there any tricks to increasing the ripping speed? I am using Windows 7 on a new Intel i7 3.0Ghz CPU. is there any advantage to performing the CPU-intensive and CD-intensive ripping with different multicore affinities?
Thanks.
Questions for you:
1. Do you rip every CD that you buy? I spend much of my time in front of my computer, so getting a good FLAC rip pays off for me, but ripping takes so long that I feel I shouldn't spend the time to rip CDs I probably won't listen to very much. On the other hand, I'm afraid that if I don't rip it, the CD will go onto my shelf of 700 CDs and will never be seen again.
2. Why do some CDs take a long time to rip and encode (e.g. a full rip-and-encode at a rate of 1 song every 2 minutes)? Other CDs can be done at a rate of 1 song every 30 seconds.
3. In Windows, are there any tricks to increasing the ripping speed? I am using Windows 7 on a new Intel i7 3.0Ghz CPU. is there any advantage to performing the CPU-intensive and CD-intensive ripping with different multicore affinities?
Thanks.