[KLUG Members] Ripping MP3's

[Adam Bultman]

With regards to ripping slowness:  My 52x drive gets about 4x if I use the
generic SCSI driver instead of the IDE driver in linux.  I get about 2
tops otherwise. Partly, it's the amount of 'paranoia' that you are using.
Use less paranoia, and it'll rip faster.

With regards to creating MP3's, I use oggenc.  XMMS uses oggs just fine,
and for some reason, they appealed to me. So I use oggenc.  You can try
that, but windows users'll have to download a special codec.

-- 
Adam Bultman
adam@glaven.org
[ http://www.glaven.org ]


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Tim Smith wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to rip CD's to MP3's on
> my Linux box.  I'm running BSware 7.2 #13 on a K6-2
> 380Mhz /w 96MB Ram.  I did a little reading, and
> downloaded/installed a grip rpm.  This seemed to come
> up alright, but it seems to have trouble ripping
> really slowly, it reports 1.2x speed when I have a 48x
> drive.  I know it likes to use cdparanoia so I
> installed that rpm off of the cd.  This seemed to go
> well, but no more speed.  The program also likes to
> use Lame to convert the .wav files to mp3 so I
> downloaded fresh Lame rpm's and installed them.  When
> I try to rip and mp3ify, it says I have a bad lame
> executable.  I typed in lame at the command prompt and
> it came right up giving me instructions about
> different switches I can use.  I don't think the lame
> is bad.  All of this was done as root also.  Any
> thoughts / ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
>
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