better cd audio extraction times

[Jeff Bolton]

ok hopefully someone can give me some ideas on my problem. i have an Aopen 16x40x DVD-rom drive and a Plextor 16x10x40x burner. both drives have 40x read times and i've read reviews with the plextor where a whole 80 minute cd will rip in about 3 minutes. i have NEVER seen either drive rip a whole cd in under 6-7 minutes. my burner writes at 16x just fine. i did a test on the audio extraction speeds with easy cd creator 5 and the DVD rom averages 14x rip speed and the Plextor managed a little better at a 19x average. either way, this is only about HALF the speed that they are theoretically supposed to read and rip at. does anyone know of any settings that i can change to achieve better rip times? its sooo annoying.

thanks,

jeff

[KaHNZa]

They always over-exagerate the rip speeds. HEck, my 16x10x40 TDK barely rips at 12X

[ThePunkGeek]

try using another burning programs (nero)
i have had lots of problem with ez cd creator messing up my aspi
i dunno if this has anything to do with speeds but thats what i can tell you from experience

[Patchmaster]

After ripping and encoding about 250 CDs I discovered fast ripping should not be a concern if you care about quality. Once I was educated about the difficulties involved with ripping audio, I ended up ripping and encoding them all over again, this time using EAC in secure mode so it does a minimum of four reads of each track, comparing the reads and doing it as many times as necessary to get a good read.

It's possible the software you're using is already doing something like this. I have the same Plextor you do and have seen some fantastic rip times using EAC in its fastest non-secure mode, but the results were loaded with pops and clicks and other nasty glitches. Ripping and encoding your CDs is going to be a big project; take my advice and do it right the first time. EAC and LAME are the way to go. If you want to read more about this, I recommend r3mix.net as a source for good info.

[Jeff Bolton]

thanks for the tip man. now that i see what you mean i have changed my opinion :). come to think of it, all of my trakcs always sound good :)

jeff

[Patchmaster]

EAC is probably the best if your primary concern is quality. It goes to heroic lengths to be sure it has properly read every track. The only problem is it has a truly dizzying array of parameters and most of them will be meaningless to anyone but a true expert. I came across a tutorial somewhere that explained how to set it up and that got me going with it. I don't recall the URL, but if you do a Google search for "eac" you should find it. I also understand there's a new version available that's much more user friendly. Don't be put off by the "beta" status of EAC. It's been that way for years.

CDex is another good ripper I've used. The author added a "paranoid" mode a while ago that works much the same way as EAC so you should get good rips with it too.

[Breadfan]

I usually rip from easy cd creator 4 at about 10x to .wav file. I've burned CD's from these rips and they sound good to me. No pops or anything...and I listen to music quite loud in my car and consider myself to be somewhat of the "audiophile" ilk. So, its not the fastest thing in the world, but it'll do a Cd in a few minutes, and I can't complain about the quality.

Mike