[KLUG Members] RE:ripping MP3s

[Adam Bultman]

True. However, my 52x CDROM could rip mp3's at what? 17x in windows?  My
Plextor 12/20 rips at 20x in windows.  While I haven't tried the plextor
in linux (I will tonight, though), the 52x only gets an average of 2x.

Oh, well.

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


On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Adam Williams wrote:

> >..really slowly, it reports 1.2x speed when I have a 48x
> >..drive.  I know it likes to use cdparanoia so I
> >Max data extraction rate does not correlate to Audio extraction rate.
> >That could be as low as 1x or as high as 8x.
>
> Exactly,  Redbook (CD Audio) "plays" at a certain rate.
>
> >There may be some software tricks to throw at it, but it seems to be
> >hinging around a hardware limitation.
>
> Right,  only so much.  The CDs rated speed is for lifting data of the
> disc, not audio.
>
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