cd ripping

[cuneoone]

does anyone out there know of a program i can purchase that can rip cd's fast or does it depend on the speed of my cd rom?

[ryan]

Well, It really depends on the speed of your computer\cdrom drives.. I think..

[Viper007Bond]

That would be correct. It's mostly your CPU speed since it has to convert it, but it's also your CD-ROM read speed.

My favorite ripping program:

http://www.cdex.n3.net

[net-cruizer]

Well you're on the subject, what would be the average time it would take to rip a track from a CD, converting to mp3, on a 32x cdrom?
For me it takes at least 3 minutes for a song, and that seems like an awful long time. Is that normal or what?
Like I figure thats a long time, cuz it only takes me 15 to 30 seconds to download a song, so that's much faster than ripping.

[net-cruizer]

Originally posted by Sawg
Surprisingly enough ripping speeds for drivers in not their Read speed you usually see on the drive (32X). See this for example. There isn't much you can do to try to up the hardware ripping speed. Maybe try updating you ASPI drivers and what not.

But remember, speed had have a negative effect on quality. If you try to make a CD ROM rip faster then it can safely rip a CD you might get damaged WAV/MP3 files with desyncs and nasty artifacts. Try ripping in a secure mode, slower but much higher chance of the rips coming out perfect.

Cool, thanx for that page link.
I now see that I am ripping low, as I have that crappy COMPAQ CRD-8322B 1.03 and I the 0.8x rip is what I do achieve, lol, though it hits 1.0x sometimes. Anyways, I see there's a firmware upgrade to get 3.0x, which is still low, but better, lol. Thanx again.